SCiO Virtual Open Meeting - May 2023

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SCiO Virtual Open Meeting - May 2023

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of interest to Systems and Complexity in Organisation's members and others.

By SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation

Date and time

Mon, 15 May 2023 18:30 - 21:00 GMT+1

Location

To be announced

About this event

SCiO holds Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. This virtual session will be held on Zoom, the details of which will be confirmed with booked attendees nearer the time.

The programme for 15th May 2023 is as follows:

18:30 – Welcome, virtual housekeeping and check-in

18:40 - SCiO Introduction & Notices

18:45 – Session 1 (presentation and Q & A ) – Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

19:40 – Session 2 (presentation and Q & A) – Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations

20:30 – Summary and close

20:30 - 21:00 (Optional) - Later ... virtual networking

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Session 1 - Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

Abstract: tbc ...

Presenter: George Monbiot: Journalist, Writer and Environmental Activist

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Session 2 - Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations

Abstract: Organisations looking to follow strategies for social or environmental sustainable operation need to make sure that their people have the necessary knowledge and skills to enable this to happen. The complexity of the sustainability challenge makes systems thinking a powerful tool to use in developing learning and development strategies. Drawing on his recently published book, "Learning strategies for sustainable organisations", Bryan Hopkins will show how learning and development professionals can use the Viable System Model to identify competences needed to support organisational sustainability, and how to use Critical Systems Heuristics to develop a strategy for an effective system for sustainability-focused learning.

Presenter: Bryan Hopkins: Learning and Development Consultant

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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:

  • 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 non-profit and social enterprise - SCiO started in the UK, but there are now groups in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Please visit our website for further details and sign-up to become a member: http://www.systemspractice.org/

If you have any questions about the event, or booking to attend it, please contact: tony.korycki@systemspractice.org

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SCiO is a group for systems practitioners and is based in the UK, but has members internationally.

http://www.systemspractice.org

Two of the features that distinguish SCiO from other systems groups are that it is focused primarily on systems practice and practitioners rather than on pure theory and that it is focused on systems practice applied to issues of organisation.

SCiO has three main objectives: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. 

SCiO is a social enterprise and a not for profit organisation which is owned by its members.

Provenance and Purpose.Created initally by a network of practitioners in the North of England, SCiO acts as an extra channel for disseminating to others their experience of practical applications, education and research in complex problem solving. The name stands for 'Systems and Complexity in Organisation' but can also be thought of as short for the 'Science of Organisation'.

Over the last sixty years the new disciplines of ‘Systems Thinking’ and ‘Managerial Cybernetics’ have emerged. The new thinking started from the consideration of complex problems faced during the Second World War; then later in the 1970’s the same patterns of thinking emerged with the new awareness of the complexity of ecological problems. The ideas developed and spread into other areas of science and in particular into management. In the last thirty years new insights and understanding have developed in the way to approach apparently intractable problems in many areas.

At this time the terms ‘whole systems approach’ and ‘systems thinking’ seem to be appearing more frequently in published policy documents and guidance on best practice in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, such as in the UK National Health Service; in documents on public health, sustainable communities, in education, in considerations of the environment, and in corporate governance.

The members of SCiO believe that the use of systems thinking and managerial cybernetics can have major impacts on the well-being of our communities, and our business and social organisations.

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