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Learning to Learn: towards a Relational and Transformational Model of Learning
Health and social care systems are implementing fundamental changes to organizational structures and work practices in an effort to achieve integrated care. While some integration initiatives have produced positive outcomes, many have not. We reframe the concept of integration as … Continue reading
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Design as Participation
A consideration of design as a form of participation in complex adaptive systems. This new generation of designers that work with complex adaptive systems. Why are they so much more humble than their predecessors who designed, you know, stuff? The … Continue reading
Knowledge Workers as Fractals in a Complex Adaptive Organization
This paper addresses the link between effective knowledge management in an organization and the organization as a complex adaptive system, which is required to deliver a rapid and high-quality response to social, media-related and technological changes in the environment. In … Continue reading
Posted in Complex adaptive system, Fractal organizations, Knowledge management, Knowledge worker, Knowledge-based community, Knowledge-based transformation, Organizations
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Consensus Building and Complex Adaptive Systems – A Framework for Evaluating Collaborative Planning
Consensus building and other forms of collaborative planning are increasingly used for dealing with social and political fragmentation, shared power, and conflicting values. The authors contend that to evaluate this emergent set of practices, a new framework is required modeled … Continue reading
The Learning Environment as a Chaotic and Complex Adaptive System
Thrivability is a novel concept describing the intention to go beyond sustainability, allowing a system to flourish. For a society or organization to be thrivable, educated, responsible acting agents are needed. Traditional education focuses on (efficient) reproduction of existing organised … Continue reading
Complexity: A Guided Tour
It is about the questions that fascinate me and others in the complex systems community, past and present: How is it that those systems in nature we call complex and adaptive—brains, insect colonies, the immune system, cells, the global economy, … Continue reading
Thinking in Groups
Is cognition an exclusive property of the individual or can groups have a mind of their own? We explore this question from the perspective of complex adaptive systems. One of the principal insights from this line of work is that … Continue reading
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The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System Model for Organizations
This paper proposes a new model for organizations that live in a dynamic, complex environment. The model proposes to represent a new theory of the organization, one that starts with the fact that organizations are not metaphors of living systems … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive organizations, Complex adaptive system, Intelligence, Living systems, Organizations
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Complexity Leadership in Bureaucratic Forms of Organizing – A Meso Model
We consider Complexity Leadership Theory in contexts of bureaucratic forms of organizing to describe how adaptive dynamics can work in combination with administrative functions to generate emergence and change in organizations. Complexity leadership approaches are consistent with the central assertion … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive leadership, Complex adaptive system, Complexity leadership, Emergence, Innovation, Leadership
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Complexity Leadership Theory – shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era
Leadership models of the last century have been products of top-down, bureaucratic paradigms. These models are eminently effective for an economy premised on physical production but are not well-suited for a more knowledge oriented economy. Complexity science suggests a different … Continue reading
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