David Ing
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David Ing posted an update 6 months, 1 week ago
Technology evolves …. Fans of this SysCoI experiment might like to try the Systems Sciences Community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117647110273892799778 . It’s an open platform (like the SysCoI in style, and unlike LinkedIn and Facebook), where visibility and longevity have bright prospects.
In my role as moderator for…[Read more]
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David Ing wrote a new post, Try the Systems Sciences Group on Facebook 11 months, 1 week ago
If you like the systems thinking content on SysCOI, you might like the Systems Sciences Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/2391509563/ , or via the more memorable http://bit.ly/systemssciences […]
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David Ing posted a new activity comment 1 year, 2 months ago
In reply to: David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists Wed. April 11, 10-12, at Media Factory Auditorium, Taik, Helsinki, David Ing on “Service Systems, Natural Systems: Systems Thinking with Scientists, Managers, […] View@brendavertiz Thanks for coming to hear my talk, during a school break week in Finland. The Madonna and Lady Gaga theme may not be heard again, so the next best retelling may be in the news item at http://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/madonna-says-reductive-people-reach-for-dictionary-abc-news/ .
Since the talk is a work in process, I’ll…[Read more]
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David Ing posted an update in the group
Systemicists 1 year, 2 months agoWed. April 11, 10-12, at Media Factory Auditorium, Taik, Helsinki, David Ing on “Service Systems, Natural Systems: Systems Thinking with Scientists, Managers, Engineers and Designers”.
I hope to see some familiar faces there!
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Thanks for the presentation David, was really good to have this clear and structured information about Systemic thinking, natural systems, social systems, learning, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Michael Jackson. Is it possible to have your slides? There’s a lot of information I can use for my thesis, which is about future learning environments….was…[Read more]
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@brendavertiz Thanks for coming to hear my talk, during a school break week in Finland. The Madonna and Lady Gaga theme may not be heard again, so the next best retelling may be in the news item at http://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/madonna-says-reductive-people-reach-for-dictionary-abc-news/ .
Since the talk is a work in process, I’ll…[Read more]
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David Ing posted an update in the group
Systemicists 1 year, 2 months agoActivity is picking up on the Systems Sciences Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/2391509563/ , if people would like to converse over there.
The rise of the Facebook group has been a surprise, since it’s actually been around for a while. Facebook has incrementally added functionality, and Facebook is popular is a second (or…[Read more]
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Systemicists 1 year, 3 months agoIn D.C., March 31-April 1, ”Complexity and Reflexivity” meeting of American Society for Cybernetics hosted by Stuart Umpleby http://www.gwu.edu/~rpsol/preconf.html , as part of Capitol Science 2012, Washington Academy of Sciences http://www.washacadsci.org/capsci12/body.htm
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Systemicists 1 year, 3 months agoSocioTechnical Systems perspective has two design principles, Redundancy of Parts as DP1, Redundancy of Function as DP2. Described by Merrelyn Emery, extracted at http://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/genotypical-organization-design-principles-dp1-and-dp2-merrelyn-emery/
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Systemicists 1 year, 4 months agoMary Catherine Bateson, receiving the Norbert Wiener medal, wrote a letter to the American Society for Cybernetics in August 2011.
> … hope rests on the potential offered by cybernetics for thinking in terms of whole systems rather than in terms of separate and competing interests and specializations, a potential that must be explored and…[Read more] -
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Systemicists 1 year, 4 months agoCredibility gap in “No Need to Panic About Global Warning” article in WSJ signed by 16 scientists? Opinion piece at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html
Repudiation about sources by D.R. Tucker “Scared of Science” at…[Read more]
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Systemicists 1 year, 4 months agoAt INCOSE IW, Janet Singer (as ISSS VP Research and Pubs) was tasked to lead a subcommittee on describing Systems Thinking, Systems Science and Systems Approach for the INCOSE Systems Engineering Book of Knowledge. Other projects (e.g. ontology) may also be involved.
See workshop at…[Read more]
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Systemicists 1 year, 5 months agoWhat should dialogue designers know about inquiring systems? Workshop recap at http://bit.ly/AeetP6, slides http://bit.ly/A2him0 . Dialogue with Design session in Toronto
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Systemicists 1 year, 5 months agoSystems biology, seeing properties in organisms not in the parts, arose from advances in computing in larger datasets, says David Weinberger.
> In 2002, when Hiroaki Kitano wrote a cover story on systems biology for Science magazine — a formal recognition of the growing importance of this young field — he said: “The major reason it is gaining…[Read more]
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David Ing posted a new activity comment 1 year, 5 months ago
In reply to: Roman Lihhavtshuk posted an update in the group Systemicists My essay and interactive tool about the way to connect dots between different theories by using systems thinking http://www.dip.ee/systems/ Merry Christmas! View@roman The animated graphics in How to create a new tool
for the Creative Sustainability by using systems thinking? represents an ambitious crossing of domains.I looked at your cited Geels (2001) article, and noticed the foundations in Nelson & Winter’s Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, dating back to 1982. The Gunderson and Holling…[Read more]
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David Ing posted a new activity comment 1 year, 5 months ago
In reply to: Timo posted an update My essay: http://timotiikeri.wordpress.com/ Happy new year mates! View@timo In your Architecture, Sustainability and Systems Thinkingessay, you’ve taken an idealist approach, i.e. you start from a proscribed future and approach the present with a critical eye.
An alternative approach is to start from current practices, and look to see how they might evolve. Going from potential future to current state, and from…[Read more]
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Systemicists 1 year, 5 months agoThe influences between culture and education in a society are circular. “Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity” says Pasi Sahlberg, director of the Finnish Ministry of Education’s Center…[Read more]
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Systemicists: 1 year, 6 months agoIn school, losing cursive writing and long division seems like civilization in decline.
>WHAT’S IN: iPad therapy [....] Twitter assignments [....] Smartboard MacGyvers [....]
>WHAT’S OUT: Cursive writing [....] Long division [....] Computer labs [....]The print edition also included WHAT’S ODD: Wikipedia U. [...] Robot Teachers…[Read more]
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Systemicists: 1 year, 6 months ago“Systems Thinking in a Bar” blog post leads to @jurgenappelo “Complexity Thinking or Systems Thinking ++” breezy 191-slide presentation. References to Russell Ackoff, Dave Snowden, Ralph Stacey, Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Michael C. Jackson.
Blog post at http://www.noop.nl/2011/11/systems-thinking-in-a-bar.html , slides at…[Read more]
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David Ing posted an update in the group
Systemicists: 1 year, 6 months agoObliquity: those who succeed the most are those who take the oblique path, says John Kay.
> [In] John Kay’s Obliquity … The veteran Oxford University economist carefully examines the pathways that people and organizations follow to success, and finds, over and over, that those who succeed the most are those who take the oblique path. “If you…[Read more] -
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Systemicists: 1 year, 6 months agoBeyond the paleo diet, six elements of the Paleolithic lifestyle (Pedro Carrera-Bastos)
> DON’T JUST EAT IT – LIVE IT
Here are six key elements of the Paleolithic lifestyle, according to Pedro Carrera-Bastos, a Swedish health researcher specializing in the effects of “ancestral” diets, and his colleagues.
> 1. SUNSHINE
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Systemicists: 1 year, 6 months agoThe magic of diasporas: Immigrant networks are a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them.
> Diaspora networks—of Huguenots, Scots, Jews and many others—have always been a potent economic force, but the cheapness and ease of modern travel has made them larger and more numerous than ever before. There are now…[Read more] - Load More
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