About this Event
SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. The programme for 12th September is as follows:
9:30 - 10:00 Intro. to Viable System Model or Critical Systems Heuristics
10:00 - 10:30 SCiO notices and community exercise
10:30 - 11:30 tbc
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:45 Autopoiesis - Mechanisms of Self-Creation in Living Beings and Organizations (Dr. Clemens Dachs)
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 15:45 Designing Democracy (Robin Asby)
15:45 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 tbc
17:00 Later in the bar (social)
Autopoiesis - Mechanisms of Self-Creation in Living Beings and Organizations
In recent decades, many people perceive that changes in professional life are accelerating. The world is becoming more and more interconnected and complex. Everything seems to be connected to everything else. Because of these changes, decisions are becoming increasingly decentralized. Employees are being given entrepreneurial responsibility. Companies expect their employees to demonstrate the same level of self-organization as self-employed people.
What self-organization skills do you need? How do you acquire them? New patent remedies are constantly being formulated in the popular forums, or old ones are being reformulated. How can one orient oneself in the constantly growing number of methods? Is there a common logical basis that helps one to arrange this knowledge systematically? Is there something like a map?
What can be taken as a stable basis for systematically classifying new knowledge?
If you want to have sustainable success, then use the blueprint of living beings! Living beings are extremely successful systems that can grow and thrive. That is exactly what your organization is supposed to do.
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Dr.Clemens Dachs is Head of System Architecture at Siemens Energy
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Designing Democracy
I have yet to find the word ‘cybernetics’ in mainstream writing on government and yet the comparison to steering a ship appears in the writing of Plato 2,500 years ago on government, and the word itself in the writing of Ampere 300 years ago. Beer’s cybernetic approach to systems thinking upon which he based his VSM gives a foundation from which I explore the purpose and structure of democracy
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Robin Asby is a Systems Thinker, Researcher, Author and Academic
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About SCiO
SCiO is a community of systems practitioners who believe that traditional approaches to running organisations are responsible for many of the problems we see today. We believe that systemic approaches to designing and running organisations offer radically new and better alternatives.
SCiO has three main objectives as a professional body:
- Developing practice in applying systems ideas to a range of organisational issues
- Disseminating the use of systems approaches in dealing with organisational issues
- Supporting practitioners in their professional practice.
Many systems practitioners can feel isolated in their organisations. SCiO provides a way to talk to and get support from a wide range of like minded people and see how they are addressing similar challenges.
SCiO is a charity and social enterprise - SCiO started in the UK, but there are now groups throughout Europe. Please visit our website for further details and sign-up to become a member: http://www.systemspractice.org/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Penthouse, Alliance Manchester Business School, Booth Street West, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 30.00