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Pre-launch event May 2001, Milton Keynes
...Systems Practice for Managing Complexity held a first workshop
on 24th May 2001 with more than 50 participants from government, business,
non-profit organisations and the higher education sector. This workshop
was concerned with the aim of identifying the needs and enthusiasms
of participants, and discussing current trends in Systems Practice
and how these might be put to good use in helping to address those
needs.
Speakers at the day were Geoff Mulgan of the Performance Innovation
Unit at the Cabinet Office and Prof. David Robertson from Liverpool
John Moores University. Click on the links for an account of the workshop,
the speakers' papers, and a paper reviewing the project:
The workshop (.pdf file)
David Robertson (.pdf file)
Geoff Mulgan (.pdf file)
Systems Practice for Managing
Complexity - the research case (.pdf file)
The above papers were published in "The Proceedings of a Workshop
on The Systems Practice for Managing Complexity Network", in, "Systemist",
Volume 23, Special Edition, Nov. 2001.
Geoff Mulgan of the Performance Innovation Unit
at the Cabinet Office, Prof. Ray Ison of the Open University, Geoff
Peters of the Open University and Prof. Frank Stowell of Portsmouth
University