Designing for thrownness, design attitude, decision attitude
“Designing for Thrownness” showed up for me via “Design, Wicked Problems and Throwness” by Harold G. Nelson. The citation of Karl Weick as a source, with references to Flores & Winograd (1986),...
View ArticleOpen source, private source: foundations
In my dissertation for Aalto University, I’ve chosen the label of “private source” in opposition for the label “open source”. This dissertation has been under development for some years. In November...
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Reconciling Perspectives in Futures Research and Systems Thinking
The postgraduate course on Philosophical, Methodological and Pragmatic Approaches to Scientific Futures Research was offered by the Finnish Futures Academy at the University of Turku at the end of...
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Systems Thinking and Science, (Systems Thinking Ontario, 2013-01-17)
The inaugural meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario convened in the Lambert Lounge at OCAD U. on the evening of January 17. The theme for the meeting was “Systems Thinking and Science”, with the focus...
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Systems Thinking and Futures Studies (Systems Thinking Ontario, 2013-02-21)
The pre-reading of Emery (1967), “The Next Thirty Years: Concepts, Methods and Anticipations” was introduced as a challenging article for the second meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario on Feb. 21,...
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Full version: “Rethinking Systems Thinking: Learning and coevolving with the...
A guest lecture on systems thinking for the Creativity Sustainability program at Aalto University provided an opportunity to stretch out on the plenary presentation that I had given at ISSS 2012. In...
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Systems Thinking and the Learning Aesthetic (Systems Thinking Ontario,...
When can learning about system thinking be fun (and when can’t it be)? This was the focus question for the third Systems Thinking Ontario meeting. We had a slight change in format from the...
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A 90-year evolution: beliefs and values at IBM
In the IBM Archives, there’s a “IBM Management Principles & Practices” document that reflects the culture of an organization where I spent 28 years. The 19 pages includes articles by seven IBM...
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Technology-supported collaboration, Git and GitHub
Through dubious television coverage on GitHub, some publicity on technology-supported collaboration have surfaced. Business Insider reported: Fox Business tried to use a bunch of coder lingo in a...
View ArticleRethinking Systems Thinking (article)
An article on “Rethinking Systems Thinking”, evolved from the ISSS San Jose 2012 plenary, is nearing publication. The speech, as presented in fall 2012, covered a lot of content. In written form, the...
View ArticleOctober 2013 lectures: Helsinki, Oslo, Hull, Oxford, London
Offers to lecture for some friends at universities in Europe has led to a schedule of seven lectures at six universities. New presentations slides were created for the Relating Systems Thinking &...
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2013/10/07 Lectures at Aalto University (web video)
The Creative Sustainability program at Aalto University recorded the two lectures that they hosted on October 7. They’ve done the post-production work to make the videos available on the web. The...
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General Systems Yearbook 2013: Service Systems, Natural Systems – Sciences in...
The fifth issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science for 2013 has now been officially published. The special issue features the content of the General Systems Yearbook, including publication of...
View ArticleWhat is a system? (and the challenges of definition)
When asked “what is a system?”, a deep systems thinker may hesitate to respond. He or she may be reflecting on whether the response should be “what does a system mean to you?”, or “what should a...
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A Proposal for Collaboration on a Pattern Language for Service Systems
A meeting of systems scientists and systems engineers together as the Systems Science Working Group at the INCOSE International Workshop 2014 provided a forum for “a proposal for collaboration on a...
View ArticleReframing service systems methods as project-portfolio conversations:...
The Oxford Futures Forum 2014 committee requested an image and an abstract as an application for an Open Space event for 70 participants on May 30-31. The event description reads: Purpose and aims...
View ArticleEvolution of open source IBIS software
As a way to enable conversations about wicked problems, IBIS (Issue-Based Information Systems) software seems to have evolved over the past few years. While the academic support of IBIS software has...
View ArticleMediating spaces, rich research spaces and GIGA-mapping
The thinking behind GIGA-mapping, as a technique from designers, echoes some research into (computer-supported) collaborative work from a decade ago. In “GIGA-Mapping: Visualisation for Complexity and...
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Systems generating systems — architectural design theory by Christopher...
The systems thinking roots from architect Christopher Alexander aren’t completely obvious in his work on pattern language. A republished version of an 1968 article resurfaces some clarification on a...
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Incubating Service Systems Thinking
Evolving the Proposal to Collaborate on a Pattern Language for Service Systems from January, the initiative has now taken on a label of Service Systems Thinking. The presentation at the 58th Annual...
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