Systemic Intervention Principles cf.: Stage Appropriate Support & Interventions A Systemic Perspective represents the ability to understand and articulate the core principles of the system that govern the set of interactions being observed. This knowledge is then used to inform choices regarding participation/ intervention in the group/community context. This includes: An awareness of the interrelatedness of self in systems. The “objective observer” is a mythAn awareness of the interactional patterns that define the system.An ability to effectively engages/manages the inherent polarities and their accompanying tensions found in living systems.Your capacity to assess the overall health of the system and design effective intervention strategies aimed at maintaining or returning the system to health. Note: You MUST have a clear picture of what a ‘healthy’ organization looks like. Because everything is related…
Systems Theory/Cybernetics What is Cybernetics?[edit] There are many different definitions of Cybernetics and many individuals who have influenced the direction of Cybernetics. Cybernetics takes as its domain the discovery or design and application of principles of regulation and communication. Cybernetics treats ways of behaving and not things. Cybernetics does not ask "what is this thing?" History[edit] Deriving from the Greek word for steersman (kybernetes), Cybernetics was first introduced by the mathematician Wiener, as the science of communication and control in the animal and the machine (to which we now might add: in society and in individual human beings). Cybernetics and systems theory study basically the same problem, that of organization independent of the substrate in which it is embodied. Cybernetics Contributions[edit] Pillars of Cybernetics[edit] Cybernetics theories tend to rest on four basic pillars: circularity, variety, process and observation. Focus[edit] Resources and Further Reading[edit]
Systemic Thinking Systemic Thinking is a process of understanding and transforming complex situations - these may include water catchments, a client's market, manufacturing and external environment, projects etc. Systems thinking works through enabling all stakeholders to see their role, their responsibilities and the organisation's strategic imperatives as interdependent. A Systemic Thinking Map Purpose: A system can only be conceived when there is a clear articulation of an organisational purpose. Boundaries: As soon as a purpose has been expressed the boundaries of the system can be identified. Coherence: All the dynamics that exist within a system need to have a coherence (a sense of wholeness) if they are to be a legitimate part of that system. Emergence: A characteristic of systems is that the whole has characteristics that can not be identified from a study of the systems parts.
The Globalization Website - Theories GLOBALIZATION THEORIES (Back to list of theories) World-System Theory (Synopsis and Analysis) Synopsis Globalization is the process, completed in the twentieth century, by which the capitalist world-system spreads across the actual globe. Since that world-system has maintained some of its main features over several centuries, globalization does not constitute a new phenomenon. The modern world-system originated around 1500. In the twentieth century, the world-system reached its geographic limit with the extension of capitalist markets and the state system to all regions. Analysis Definition. Key feature. Origin. Structure. How it works. Strong states in core areas-i.e., those that are militarily strong relative to others and also not dependent on any one group within the state (1974b: 355)-serve the interests of economically powerful classes, absorb economic losses, and help to maintain the dependence of peripheral areas. How it changes. Current situation. Sources I. --. 1974b. __. 1989.
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NeWater - New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management under Uncertainty SP 1: Management and Transition Framework (MTF) The Management and Transition Framework (MTF) facilitates analyses of water systems, water management processes and transitions to adaptive water management. It integrates concepts from a variety of fields dealing with the characterisation of social systems (actor networks, institutions, governance), the behaviour of individual actors, interactions between social and ecological systems, as well as the dynamics of societal systems (with an emphasis on social learning and institutional change). The MTF is designed in a modular and flexible way to facilitate analyses at different scales and in various contexts. It mainly provides two views of water systems: The MTF Triple Loop Diagram is a process-oriented view focusing on the learning processes in management. The two views are linked, since the actors and elements involved in the phases of the Triple Loop Diagram can be examined in greater detail using the Class Diagram. MTF Special Issue
The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet? | Serendipity Next year, I’ll be teaching a new undergraduate course, as part of an initiative by the Faculty of Arts and Science known as Big Ideas courses. The idea is to offer trans-disciplinary courses, team taught by professors from across the physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, that will probe important ideas about the world from different disciplinary perspectives. For the coming year, U of T is launching three Big Ideas courses: BIG100: “The end of the world as we know it”;BIG101: “Energy: From Fire to the Future”;BIG102: “The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet?” I’m delighted to be teaming up with Prof Miriam Diamond from Earth Sciences and Prof Pamela Klassen from Study of Religion to teach BIG102. For the first term, we’re planning to cover a broad set of provocative questions, to get students thinking about the internet from different perspectives: What is a big idea? The Internet and the Innovation Imperative.Is the Internet Innovative?
Rosen Enterprises The Macroscope: Chap. 1 This is chapter 1 of the "The Macroscope" by Joël de Rosnay Today the world is messages, codes, pieces of information. What dissection tomorrow will dislocate our objects in order to recompose them in a new space? The atom, the molecule, the cell, the organism, and society fit one within the other like a series of Russian dolls. The purpose of this preliminary exploration is twofold. Then it is a matter of introducing the concepts of "systems" and "systemic approach," the bases of the new culture of the concerned man of the twenty-first century. All life on earth rests on the present or past functioning of the ecosystem, from the smallest bacteria to the deepest forests, from the fragile plankton of the oceans to man, his agriculture, and his industry. The ecosystem is literally the house of life, and the science that studies it is ecology. Yet the ecosystem is much more than merely the milieu in which one lives. All these movements, displacements, and transformations require energy.
International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics The book International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics is an authoritative encyclopedia [ 1 ] for systems theory , cybernetics , the complex systems science, which covers both theories and applications in areas as engineering , biology , medicine and social sciences . This book first published in 1997 aimed to give an overview over more than 40 years developments in the field of Systems and Cybernetics . [ 2 ] This book offers a collection of more than 3000 keywords and articles of Systems and Cybernetics. Many items contain quotes from authors from the field. The book is edited by Belgian systems scientist and diplomat Charles François [ 3 ] with an Academic board including members such as John N. The first edition was published in 1997 in one volume with 450 pages by publisher K.G. References [ edit ] External links [ edit ] International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics short intro.
Information Systems Foundations: Constructing and Criticising Table of Contents Preliminary Pages Information systems foundations I. Foundations of information systems theory and research 1. Introduction The lingering death of positivism A ‘scientific’ perspective Interpretivism and constructivism A typology of theory for information systems Concluding remarks 2. Introduction Information systems: fading into the background ‘Information systems as a reference discipline’ – Baskerville and Myers A problem of visibility The value of cultural capital Theory as symbolic capital Finding a site for grand information systems theory Existing portfolio-level theory Toward a structural theory of information systems Conclusions and recommendations 3. Introduction Characterising information systems research Ontology Approaches to categorisation Approaches to the literary work of art Providing for perspectives: identifying an appropriate reference ontology Establishing and empirically validating ontological categories Conclusions 4. II. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Society as a Complex Adaptive System | Walter Buckley | 1968 | Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist | In brief. David Ing. Sociocultural systems described by Walter Buckley in 1968 were later cited as information-bonded (c.f. energy-bonded) systems by Gharajedaghi 1999, and in 2011 . This reading deserves some more thought, so I’m getting into motion to lead a workshop at ISSS Hai Phong City 2013 . We have argued at some length in another place [1] that the mechanical equilibrium model and the organismic homeostasis models of society that have underlain most modern sociological theory have outlived their usefulness. A more viable model, one much more faithful to the kind of system that society is more and more recognized to be, is in process of developing out of, or is in keeping with, the modern systems perspective (which we use loosely here to refer to general systems research, cybernetics, information and communication theory, and related fields). [1]. To summarize the argument in overly simplified form: Equilibrial systems are relatively closed and entropic . Buckley, Walter. 1968. Like this:
Systems Thinking Definitions From SystemsWiki As I have continued to ponder the meaning of Systems Thinking over the years in conjunction with reading and many conversations it would seem that the understanding has evolved, thankfully. There was a time when I thought Systems Thinking was just a not very grown up version of System Dynamics though I have come to understand it is really far more encompassing. While the meaning continues to evolve my foundational belief remains solid. Amidst the Eclipse You might consider this section to be sort of a description of what I thought the day before yesterday. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ~ Aristotle A system is an entity which maintains its existence through the mutual interaction of its parts. ~ Bertalanffy[1] A systems view entails considering the whole and the parts at the same time. Fig 1. represents an adaptation of one of the best positionings of Systems Thinking I've found (Richmond 1991). Structural Diagram a more disciplined map. Definitions