Conference Co-ordinator: Prof. Maurice Yolles (M.Yolles@ljmu.ac.uk)
Conference Link: Doug
Haynes (D.L.Haynes@ljmu.ac.uk)
Registration Form for Booking and accomodation.
Room G.01 (Ground floor
room 01),
List of attendees
Programme
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4th May |
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Chair: M Yolles |
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11.00 |
Keynote: Raul Espejo |
Reflections
upon an Organisation's Boundary and Identity |
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11.50 |
Coffee |
Chair: D Haynes |
|
12.00 |
Jane Searles |
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12.30 |
Luc Hoebeke |
VSM as an action research
framework in whole systems innovations |
|
13.00 |
Lunch |
Chair: A Espinosa |
|
14.00 |
Angela Burton/Doug Haynes |
Designing
a Diagnostic Awareness Chart: creating a chart to focus on business
improvement issues for operational managers in a housing context |
|
14.30 |
Kaijun Guo
et al |
Organisational Fitness: from the Viable Systems Model to Organisational
Patterning |
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15.00 |
Allenna Leonard
|
Boundaries and Thresholds: Using
the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity to
Explore Distinctions |
|
15.30 |
Coffee |
Chair: A.Moscardini |
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16.00 |
Leonid Ototsky |
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16.30 |
Stefan Wasilewski
|
A work in
progress: An application inspired by S Beer |
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17.00 |
José Pérez
Ríos |
Information
and Communication Technologies and Organizational Cybernetics |
|
19.30 |
Conference Dinner: |
The Valpiriso 4, |
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5th May |
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Chair: P Stokes |
|
10.00 |
Keynote: Patrick Hoverstadt |
Applying
the Chasm Technology Adoption Lifecycle Model to the VSM & VSM
Methodology |
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Chair: M Yolles |
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11.00 |
Invited talk: Neil Stewart |
Viability
and the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry |
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11.30 |
Coffee |
Chair: M Yolles |
|
12.00 |
Rod Thomas |
Navigating
those unfathomable waters: charting management cybernetics onto ordinary
language philosophy |
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12.30 |
Ralf-Eckhard Türke |
Viability
of a rural community in |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
Chair: R Espejo |
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14.00 |
Tony Bryant
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The
Lessons of Open Source - Participation, Inclusion, Empowerment |
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14.30 |
Steve Wright
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Humour
& The Cybernetics Of Popular Arms Control |
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15.00 - 17.00 |
Round Table |
R Espejo, P. Hoverstadt, M. Yolles: Enterprise Tools and Approaches ... development |
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Programme
in Excel .xls format |
Printable Programme in .doc format |
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The interest of this conference
is to look towards the application and development of a set of conceptual tools
and approaches that can be used to explore, diagnose, and/or enable
intervention into social and organisational behaviour, coherences, pathologies, and processes of change
and improvement. Such tools and approaches will include a variety of methods
and methodologies that are in some way in touch with management cybernetics.
The approach is to be
inclusive, interpreting enterprise in the broadest way, and embracing both societal
scale social collectives and individuals, and from small to large scale
private, public and voluntary sector organisations. There
will be a general focus on viability and sustainability. Papers will be
encouraged that cover the interests of both theorists and pragmatists: "'Theory
in Practice' and 'Practice in Theory'". Output from the first of these
might inform a continuing agenda for enterprise tools development, while the
second might inform a continuing publicising of success
stories. A critical approach is also encouraged in which, for instance, an
application story is offered that illustrates theoretical and application
strengths and inadequacies
The Conference seeks to
take forward the Metaphorum agenda of developing
Stafford Beer's legacy in Management Cybernetics, and in doing so elaborate and
enrich the content of its website Tools pages.
Appropriate papers will be
selected for a special issue of the journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change.