Systems Thinking, It's Need, Philosophy, and Rigor Together

CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING AND THE MANAGEMENT FO COMPMEXITY PROGRAMME STARTS

We have completed the first module of the Introduction to Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity and started the second module. And it has been great to get positive feedback, such as the following. comment from Dan Norris, a General Manager with a focus on Global Critical Risk at Fonterra, New Zealand.

Being on the first Cohort and only at week 2, I can highly recommend this learning opportunity. Mike's pre-videos and his interviews with great guest have clicked parts of systems thinking, it's need, philosophy, and rigor together. I came to the course having read quite a few papers and Mike's book already but did not take these lessons away on my own. Approved!??

This was a comment from Dan Norris , a General Manager with a focus on Global Critical Risk at Fonterra, New Zealand.

The first guest for the first live session associated with the first module was leading UK economist John Kay , whose career has covered academia, journalism, consulting and work on the Kay Review for the UK government following the Global Banking Crisis of 2008, a systemic look at ?the UK equity markets with the aim of ensuring they could continue to perform to the benefit of both companies and investors in the future.

The second guest, for the afternoon live session was Mark Goyder , Founder of the think and do tank, Tomorrow’s Company. He is also an author, public speaker, and public policy advisor, plus a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (www.thersa.org ), of which I am also a Fellow.

On Tuesday this week our first guest is Dr Erin Evans , an entrepreneur and internationally experienced executive, consultant, and Board Chair. She brings a system thinking approach to help organisations work in complex environments, manage change, and develop agile, resilient outcomes.

Erin specializes in innovation, health, digital and complex program delivery, working effectively with diverse stakeholders. She is experienced across the full cycle of research, translation, health delivery and ensuring a patient centric design and delivery.

She works extensively as a consultant and developed corporate and degree programs in Systems Thinking and managing organisational complexity at QUT and ICCPM. She led the Complex Project Management education at QUT and Director of Education and Development at ICCPM working with diverse clients including CASG, Raytheon, Boeing, Thales, Sydney Trains, TAFE NSW and BAE. And She is Chair of Health Consumers Queensland, Queensland Consumer Collaborative and Queensland Genomics. She sits on the QLD Clinical Senate Executive and QLD Clinical Networks Executive. ?

Our second guest on Tuesday will be Martin Reeves , a Managing Director & Senior Partner of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute.

The institute is BCG’s think tank dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. Martin is also a member of the BCG Henderson Institute's Innovation Sounding Board, which is dedicated to supporting, inspiring, and guiding upstream innovation at BCG.

Martin is a regular contributor to HBR, MIT SMR, Fortune and other management journals on business strategy and management.

A regular public speaker and a repeat TED@BCG presenter, Martin is co-author of The Imagination Machine, an executive’s guide to systematically harnessing imagination for corporate reinvention and rejuvenation. He also cowrote Your Strategy Needs a Strategy, which proposes the “strategy palette” as a tool to enable business leaders to tune their approach to strategy to the strategic environment of each business. Martin is the editor of the Inspiring the Next Game book series, published by De Gruyter.

Since joining BCG in 1989, Martin has led a broad range of strategy assignments in the Financial Institutions, Consumer Goods, Industrial Goods and Health Care sectors. He has particular expertise in the areas of adaptive strategy, strategy for multi-business systems, sustainability strategies, ecosystem strategies, collective learning and innovation, corporate vitality, and trust. ?

APPLICATION PROCESS OPEN FOR THE SECOND COHORT

You may have missed this programme, but you can now apply for the second cohort , starting on February 21st, 2023. We have already received close to seventy applications, and I am certain the popularity of the programme will grow and grow. The challenges it helps people address = managing complexity and making decisions under uncertainty - seem very unlikely to decrease. All the signs suggest they will only intensify, creating ever greater risks. ?That is why I think all directors and CEOs should address the capabilities gap as a matter of urgency. DETAILS

JOIN ME ON WEDNESDAY 12H OCTOBER FOR THIS FREE ONLINE EVENT

Seamus Gillen invited me to address his Building Better Boards network to deliver a webinar this Wednesday. I will focus on “the governance crisis” I have been speaking about, which is leaving boards, regulators, and decision-makers unable to address the challenges posed by extreme events. I will also address the questions, “How do directors manage the deep uncertainty and volatility within which we are all now operating? What do our boards need to change about our current ways of working?” You won’t be surprised to learn that one of the first priorities must be to address their own systems thinking capabilities gap, and those within the organisations they govern. ??

PLEASE JOIN US: Wednesday 12 October 5.30pm to 7pm (UK time). Zoom Dial-in Link https://lnkd.in/e8QaD5XQ Add it to your calendar now.?