Tag: MSc Systems Thinking

My postgraduate qualification in Systems Thinking in Practice June 11, 2025
TB871: Combining five systems approaches September 11, 2024
TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff August 23, 2024
TB871: The 'eternal triangle' of systemic triangulation in CSH August 23, 2024
TB871: Systemic boundary critique in CSH August 23, 2024
TB871: Systems vs Reality in CSH August 21, 2024
TB871: Comparing CSH boundaries with SSM boundaries August 21, 2024
TB871: Critical System Heuristics August 16, 2024
TB871: "Anything said is said by an observer": Humberto Maturana’s impact on Systems Thinking August 14, 2024
TB871: "The Systems Approach is Not a Bad Idea": the ethical and philosophical legacy of C. West Churchman August 14, 2024
TB871: "Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer": the life and work of Heinz von Foerster August 14, 2024
TB871: An overview of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) August 10, 2024
TB871: Exploring Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) August 08, 2024
TB871: Perplexity and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) August 08, 2024
TB871: Reflections on TMA02 and looking forward to Block 5 (SSM) August 08, 2024
TB871: Conceptualising myself through metaphor July 27, 2024
TB871: Navigating communication under pressure: Transactional Analysis, DISC, and the FONT framework July 27, 2024
TB871: Conflict management and systems thinking July 26, 2024
TB871: Power dynamics in systems thinking July 26, 2024
TB871: Four Stages of Competence (and the Johari Window) July 26, 2024
TB871: Supporting the development of others July 25, 2024
TB871: Please let me be the last thing I have to write on learning styles July 25, 2024
TB871: Personality and causal responsibility July 25, 2024
TB871: A deeper dive into OCEAN July 25, 2024
TB871: Responding to change (and junking a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones) July 23, 2024
TB871: Managing personality differences in teams (Belbin & Six Thinking Hats) July 23, 2024
TB871: Working with individual differences (MBTI & OCEAN) July 23, 2024
TB871: Block 4 Tools stream references July 21, 2024
Managing change with systems thinking in practice (PDF) July 19, 2024
TB871: Cognitive mapping, causal-loop diagramming, and a refreshing use of SODA July 17, 2024
TB871: The role of phenomenology in systems thinking July 13, 2024
TB871: Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer July 13, 2024
TB871: Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational development July 13, 2024
TB871: Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA) July 12, 2024
TB871: Block 3 People stream references July 12, 2024
TB871: Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors July 12, 2024
TB871: Ambiguity and cognitive biases July 10, 2024
TB871: Going beyond WEIRD biases July 10, 2024
TB871: Old and new mode thinking errors July 10, 2024
TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding July 10, 2024
TB871: Intuitive and rational thinking July 10, 2024
TB871: Block 3 Tools stream references July 10, 2024
TB871: Using the Viable System Model (VSM) in design mode for my system of interest July 05, 2024
TB871: A complete VSM model of my system of interest July 04, 2024
TB871: Governance and identity in the Viable System Model (System 5) July 03, 2024
TB871: Managing Development and Strategic Balance in the Viable System Model (System 4) July 03, 2024
TB871: Managing the 'inside and now' of the Viable System Model (System 3) July 03, 2024
TB871: Managing my system of interest (System 2) July 03, 2024
Notes from a discussion with Steve Brewis on the Viable System Model (VSM) June 27, 2024
TB871: Enhancing Organisational Coordination with System 2 of the VSM June 26, 2024
TB871: Assigning a purpose & defining primary operations in my system of interest (System 1) June 26, 2024
TB871: Rethinking organisational structure through VSM June 26, 2024
TB871: Managing variety using amplifiers and attenuators June 21, 2024
TB871: Systems in my situation of interest June 21, 2024
TB871: Modelling myself as a viable system June 19, 2024
TB871: Only variety can absorb variety June 19, 2024
TB871: Context and perspective in systems thinking June 19, 2024
TB871: System, variety, recursion in the VSM model June 16, 2024
TB871: Systems as waves on the edge of catastrophic breakdown June 16, 2024
TB871: The five systems of the Viable System Model (VSM) June 14, 2024
TB871: The Viable System Model (VSM) June 14, 2024
TB871: Block 2 People stream references June 07, 2024
TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors June 07, 2024
TB871: Framing and reframing June 07, 2024
TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane June 07, 2024
TB871: Block 2 People stream references June 07, 2024
TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors June 07, 2024
TB871: Happiness is a warm gun June 07, 2024
TB871: Dead metaphors June 07, 2024
TB871: Framing and reframing June 07, 2024
TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions June 07, 2024
TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane June 07, 2024
TB871: Happiness is a warm gun June 07, 2024
TB871: Dead metaphors June 07, 2024
TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions June 07, 2024
TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending June 05, 2024
TB871: Primary metaphors June 05, 2024
TB871: Block 2 Tools stream references June 05, 2024
TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending June 05, 2024
TB871: Area of practice diagram June 05, 2024
TB871: Archetype 6 — Tragedy of the commons May 31, 2024
TB871: Archetype 5 — Arms race May 31, 2024
TB871: Archetype 4 — Drifting goals May 31, 2024
TB871: Archetype 3 — Limits to growth May 31, 2024
TB871: Archetype 2 — Shifting the burden May 31, 2024
TB871: Archetype 1 — Fixes that fail May 29, 2024
TB871: Re-mapping my situation of interest May 29, 2024
TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops May 26, 2024
TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops May 26, 2024
TB871: Mapping my situation of interest May 26, 2024
TB871: Mapping my situation of interest May 26, 2024
TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis May 26, 2024
TB871: Block 1 People stream references May 26, 2024
TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis May 26, 2024
TB871: Block 1 People stream references May 26, 2024
TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches May 22, 2024
TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state May 22, 2024
TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches May 22, 2024
TB871: Flamingos and hedgehog croquet May 22, 2024
TB871: Turtles all the way down May 22, 2024
TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state May 22, 2024
TB871: Turtles all the way down May 22, 2024
TB871: Engaging with unknowns May 19, 2024
TB871: Block 1 Tools stream references May 19, 2024
TB871: Three activities associated with using a STiP heuristic for making strategy May 18, 2024
TB871: Bricolage, rigour, and service design May 18, 2024
TB871: Toast and wicked problems May 17, 2024
TB871: Nominating an area of practice May 17, 2024
TB871: A Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) heuristic May 17, 2024
TB871: Avoiding traps in conventional thinking May 11, 2024
TB871: Three purposeful orientations and five different systems approaches May 11, 2024
TB871: Systems practice competencies May 11, 2024
TB871: What is a 'strategy'? May 10, 2024
TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking May 10, 2024
TB871: What is a 'strategy'? May 10, 2024
TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking May 10, 2024
TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations May 03, 2024
TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations May 03, 2024
TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives May 01, 2024
TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System' May 01, 2024
TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives May 01, 2024
TB871: Starting my next MSc module May 01, 2024
TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System' May 01, 2024
TB871: Starting my next MSc module May 01, 2024
TB872: Concept map to help with my EMA April 05, 2024
TB872: Advantages and disadvantages of CSLS March 22, 2024
TB872: Core reading for my EMA March 20, 2024
TB872: Preparing for 1:1 meeting with my tutor March 13, 2024
TB872: A systems map of organisations involved with LERs in the USA March 08, 2024
TB872: Bawden and transforming worldviews March 08, 2024
TB872: Key concepts in Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS) March 06, 2024
TB872: Reading about Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS) March 06, 2024
TB872: Choosing between CSLS and CoPs March 01, 2024
TB872: Overview of different traditions in social learning systems February 28, 2024
TB872: Ubuntu and Pratītyasamutpāda February 28, 2024
TB872: Wenger-Trayner and communities of practice February 25, 2024
TB872: Bawden and living as a constant process of learning February 25, 2024
TB872: MCB and 'being what we are willing to learn' February 23, 2024
TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems February 23, 2024
TB872: Vickers and appreciative systems February 23, 2024
TB872: Schön's swamp and 'ideas in good currency' February 17, 2024
TB872: Schön's swamp and 'ideas in good currency' February 17, 2024
TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice February 14, 2024
TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice February 14, 2024
TB872: Authenticity and accountability January 31, 2024
TB872: Authenticity and accountability January 31, 2024
TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice January 31, 2024
TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice January 31, 2024
TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP January 29, 2024
TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP January 29, 2024
TB872: Different types of change January 29, 2024
TB872: Different types of change January 29, 2024
TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn' January 26, 2024
TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn' January 26, 2024
TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest January 26, 2024
TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest January 26, 2024
TB872: Snappy Systems January 24, 2024
TB872: The main systemic inﬂuences now operating in my situation of concern (S2) January 24, 2024
TB872: Juggling the M-ball (Managing) January 22, 2024
TB872: Juggling the C-ball (Contextualising) January 19, 2024
TB872: Juggling the E-ball (Engaging) January 18, 2024
TB872: Juggling the B-ball (Being) January 17, 2024
TB872: Purposeful and purposive framing January 15, 2024
TB872: What I talk about when I talk about juggling January 12, 2024
TB872: Four advantages of systems practice January 12, 2024
TB872: Places to intervene in a system January 12, 2024
TB872: Adding the juggler isophor to the PFMS heuristic January 10, 2024
TB872: The juggler isophor for systems practice January 10, 2024
TB872: Revisiting my learning contract January 05, 2024
TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S1) January 05, 2024
TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S2) January 05, 2024
TB872: STiP terminology January 04, 2024
TB872: Different understandings of the word 'system' January 03, 2024
TB872: Systems: epistemologies or ontologies? January 03, 2024
TB872: Systems practice and social relations January 03, 2024
TB872: Making choices about situations and systems December 30, 2023
TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis December 29, 2023
TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes December 29, 2023
TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern December 29, 2023
TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can't create the territory from my map December 28, 2023
TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry December 28, 2023
TB872: Regression and recursion December 28, 2023
TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware December 23, 2023
TB872: System-determined problems December 23, 2023
TB872: Understanding systemic inquiry in activity model terms December 19, 2023
TB872: Differences between project management and systemic inquiry December 15, 2023
TB872: Systemic inquiry as a social technology December 12, 2023
TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions December 12, 2023
TB872: A virtuous circle of inquiry December 12, 2023
TB872: The role of narrative in STiP December 03, 2023
TB872: DAD vs EDD December 02, 2023
TB872: Moving into Part 2 (a systemic inquiry into systems thinking in practice) December 01, 2023
TB872: Learning contract and preparing for first assessment November 27, 2023
TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements November 25, 2023
TB872: Communities and networks November 25, 2023
TB872: Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS) November 25, 2023
TB872: Mapping prior experience of 'learning systems' November 24, 2023
TB872: Identifying elements and processes of social learning November 24, 2023
TB872: The people of the PFMS heuristic November 24, 2023
TB872: Systems lineages November 22, 2023
TB872: Reﬂection, reﬂexivity, and 'practice performances' November 22, 2023
TB872: 'Method' vs 'Methodology' November 22, 2023
TB872: Relational thinking November 22, 2023
TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP November 17, 2023
TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices November 17, 2023
TB872: The PFMS heuristic November 17, 2023
TB872: Culturally feasible change November 17, 2023
TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance November 17, 2023
TB872: Avoiding systemic failures November 15, 2023
TB872: Experiencing situations of change November 15, 2023
TB872: Types of change November 15, 2023
TB872: The nature of change November 12, 2023
TB872: Institutions, structures, and power November 11, 2023
TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory November 11, 2023
TB872: creating a systems map of the module November 10, 2023
TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy November 08, 2023