Yesterday, I had the opportunity to dive into an insightful podcast from the series Systems and Cybernetics on the New Books Network. The episode featured an interview with Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra (Alex) S. Penn, co-authors of the book Systems Mapping: How to Build and Use Causal Models of Systems
As I continue to explore and learn about systems thinking and how to apply it to the research and development work I do, I found quite interesting the question that is posed in the introduction of a course I am doing: What does systems thinking mean to you?
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A quote by Gregory Bateson about the problems of out time
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I am reading the Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way by Mary Catherine Bateson. What a wonderful book
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Thank you to Adam Kremeia for sharing with me this Guardian Long Read about the failing food systems in the UK and for pointing me to the experience from Northern Karelia in Finland. The article is titled We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system. It is a very
The design and implementation of development initiatives in support of policy and governance reforms often contends with systems of interlinked problems and non-linear and unpredictable change processes (Harry Jones 2011).
I really enjoyed to go back this week to this paper from 2016 by ODI’s Anne Buffardi: When Theory Meets Reality. I went back to Anne’s paper because I am doing some work on defining some principle the can help design and set up monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems for development project/programmes that tackle
Warm Data are contextual and relational information about complex systems.In other words, warm data involve transcontextual information about the interrelationships that integrate a complex system, as well as interwoven complex systems.Warm Data Lab I wrote to a colleague yesterday. During a meeting he had asked about a research paper he had written with others. He was
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