Tag: Systems Thinking
177 posts. All tags.
- Why your organisation needs someone “unemployable”
- You are here: mental models for 2026
- You can ask AI to write the code, but the hard part is... everything after that
- My postgraduate qualification in Systems Thinking in Practice
- My life is a system to...?
- TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff
- TB871: The 'eternal triangle' of systemic triangulation in CSH
- TB871: Systemic boundary critique in CSH
- TB871: Systems vs Reality in CSH
- TB871: Comparing CSH boundaries with SSM boundaries
- TB871: "Anything said is said by an observer": Humberto Maturana’s impact on Systems Thinking
- TB871: "The Systems Approach is Not a Bad Idea": the ethical and philosophical legacy of C. West Churchman
- TB871: "Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer": the life and work of Heinz von Foerster
- TB871: An overview of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Exploring Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Perplexity and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- TB871: Reflections on TMA02 and looking forward to Block 5 (SSM)
- TB871: Conceptualising myself through metaphor
- TB871: Navigating communication under pressure: Transactional Analysis, DISC, and the FONT framework
- TB871: Conflict management and systems thinking
- TB871: Power dynamics in systems thinking
- TB871: Four Stages of Competence (and the Johari Window)
- TB871: Supporting the development of others
- TB871: Please let me be the last thing I have to write on learning styles
- TB871: Personality and causal responsibility
- TB871: A deeper dive into OCEAN
- TB871: Responding to change (and junking a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones)
- TB871: Working with individual differences (MBTI & OCEAN)
- TB871: Block 4 Tools stream references
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (PDF)
- TB871: Cognitive mapping, causal-loop diagramming, and a refreshing use of SODA
- TB871: The role of phenomenology in systems thinking
- TB871: Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer
- TB871: Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational development
- TB871: Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA)
- TB871: Block 3 People stream references
- TB871: Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors
- TB871: Ambiguity and cognitive biases
- TB871: Going beyond WEIRD biases
- TB871: Old and new mode thinking errors
- TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding
- TB871: Intuitive and rational thinking
- TB871: Block 3 Tools stream references
- TB871: Using the Viable System Model (VSM) in design mode for my system of interest
- TB871: A complete VSM model of my system of interest
- TB871: Governance and identity in the Viable System Model (System 5)
- TB871: Managing Development and Strategic Balance in the Viable System Model (System 4)
- TB871: Managing the 'inside and now' of the Viable System Model (System 3)
- TB871: Managing my system of interest (System 2)
- Notes from a discussion with Steve Brewis on the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: Enhancing Organisational Coordination with System 2 of the VSM
- TB871: Assigning a purpose & defining primary operations in my system of interest (System 1)
- TB871: Rethinking organisational structure through VSM
- TB871: Systems in my situation of interest
- TB871: Modelling myself as a viable system
- TB871: Only variety can absorb variety
- TB871: Context and perspective in systems thinking
- TB871: System, variety, recursion in the VSM model
- TB871: Systems as waves on the edge of catastrophic breakdown
- TB871: The five systems of the Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: The Viable System Model (VSM)
- TB871: Block 2 People stream references
- TB871: Systemic and unsystemic metaphors
- TB871: Framing and reframing
- TB871: Sending people off on the wrong plane
- TB871: Happiness is a warm gun
- TB871: Dead metaphors
- TB871: Metaphorical linguistic expressions
- TB871: Primary metaphors
- TB871: Block 2 Tools stream references
- TB871: Metaphor, ambiguity, and conceptual blending
- TB871: Area of practice diagram
- TB871: Archetype 6 — Tragedy of the commons
- TB871: Archetype 5 — Arms race
- TB871: Archetype 4 — Drifting goals
- TB871: Archetype 3 — Limits to growth
- TB871: Archetype 2 — Shifting the burden
- TB871: Archetype 1 — Fixes that fail
- TB871: Vicious cycles and causal loops
- TB871: Mapping my situation of interest
- TB871: The poverty of root cause analysis
- TB871: Block 1 People stream references
- TB871: Improvisational intelligence and cognitive niches
- TB871: Flamingos and hedgehog croquet
- TB871: 5 reasons why the unknown is not just a temporary or local state
- TB871: Turtles all the way down
- TB871: Block 1 Tools stream references
- TB871: Three activities associated with using a STiP heuristic for making strategy
- TB871: Bricolage, rigour, and service design
- TB871: Toast and wicked problems
- TB871: Nominating an area of practice
- TB871: A Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) heuristic
- TB871: Avoiding traps in conventional thinking
- TB871: Three purposeful orientations and five different systems approaches
- TB871: Systems practice competencies
- TB871: Four perspectives on systems thinking
- TB871: Making strategy in difficult/messy situations
- TB871: Getting the bigger picture and appreciating other perspectives
- TB871: Different uses of the words 'Strategy' and 'System'
- TB871: Starting my next MSc module
- TB872: Concept map to help with my EMA
- TB872: Core reading for my EMA
- TB872: Preparing for 1:1 meeting with my tutor
- TB872: A systems map of organisations involved with LERs in the USA
- TB872: Key concepts in Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Reading about Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Choosing between CSLS and CoPs
- TB872: Overview of different traditions in social learning systems
- TB872: Bawden and living as a constant process of learning
- TB872: MCB and 'being what we are willing to learn'
- TB872: Social learning systems and communities of practice
- TB872: Authenticity and accountability
- TB872: Four pervasive institutional settings inimical to the flourishing of systems practice
- TB872: Outstanding leadership and making the case for developing STiP
- TB872: Different types of change
- TB872: Systemic inquiry and the 'design turn'
- TB872: My learning contract as a designed system of interest
- TB872: Snappy Systems
- TB872: The main systemic influences now operating in my situation of concern (S2)
- TB872: Juggling the M-ball (Managing)
- TB872: Juggling the C-ball (Contextualising)
- TB872: Juggling the E-ball (Engaging)
- TB872: Juggling the B-ball (Being)
- TB872: Purposeful and purposive framing
- TB872: What I talk about when I talk about juggling
- TB872: Four advantages of systems practice
- TB872: Places to intervene in a system
- TB872: Adding the juggler isophor to the PFMS heuristic
- TB872: The juggler isophor for systems practice
- TB872: Revisiting my learning contract
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S1)
- TB872: Rich picture for my systemic inquiry (S2)
- TB872: STiP terminology
- TB872: Different understandings of the word 'system'
- TB872: Systems: epistemologies or ontologies?
- TB872: Systems practice and social relations
- TB872: Making choices about situations and systems
- TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
- TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes
- TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern
- TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can't create the territory from my map
- TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
- TB872: Regression and recursion
- TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware
- TB872: System-determined problems
- TB872: Understanding systemic inquiry in activity model terms
- TB872: Differences between project management and systemic inquiry
- TB872: Systemic inquiry as a social technology
- TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions
- TB872: A virtuous circle of inquiry
- TB872: DAD vs EDD
- TB872: Moving into Part 2 (a systemic inquiry into systems thinking in practice)
- TB872: Learning contract and preparing for first assessment
- TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements
- TB872: Communities and networks
- TB872: Mapping prior experience of 'learning systems'
- TB872: Identifying elements and processes of social learning
- TB872: The people of the PFMS heuristic
- TB872: Systems lineages
- TB872: Reflection, reflexivity, and 'practice performances'
- TB872: 'Method' vs 'Methodology'
- TB872: Relational thinking
- TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP
- TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices
- TB872: The PFMS heuristic
- TB872: Culturally feasible change
- TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance
- TB872: Avoiding systemic failures
- TB872: Experiencing situations of change
- TB872: The nature of change
- TB872: Institutions, structures, and power
- TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory
- TB872: creating a systems map of the module
- TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy
- Earning a badge in preparation for my MSc
- Systems Thinking, reference management, and Open Badges
- Seven Samurai and Open Badges