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Five Horizons of Systems Mastery
The document outlines five horizons of systems mastery, emphasizing the need for ambition and personal risk in shaping future systems practice. It discusses various mastery levels, including tools mastery, method development, learning, ethos, and epistemology, providing practice examples for each. Ultimately, it advocates for a deeper understanding of systems thinking to address pressing societal challenges and enhance intellectual capital.
Five Horizons of Systems Mastery
- 1. FIVE HORIZONS OF SYSTEMSMASTERY PHILIPPE VANDENBROECK, SHIFTN SYSTEMS INNOVATION GATHERING BARCELONA, 30-31 MARCH 2019
- 2. We need tobe more ambitious and take more personal risks in shaping the future systems practice.
- 3. ’Systems Thinking': hereto stay? Google N-Gram viewer: relative frequency of phrase 'systems thinking' in a corpus of English-written printed sources published between 1800 and 2000 1960
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- 8. System dynamics rules! Arnold and Wade (2015) A Definition of Systems Thinking: A Systems Approach
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- 10. How will wenavigate an imminent time window in which we will have to find solutions to many pressing societal problems?
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- 12. How will wemeaningfully add to the intellectual capital from the 1960s and 70s we are still drawing down from?
- 13. Kahn & Wiener1968 Schon 1972 Meadows 1972 Toffler 1970 Ackoff 1973 Vickers 1972 De Jouvenel 1964 The late 1960s and early 1970s: a period of ferment
- 14. How will werespond when some mark us as ‘enemy of the people’?
- 15. serendipity science &engineering systems thinking’s USP ? source:wikipedia source:wikipedia
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- 17. FIVE HORIZONS OF SYSTEMSMASTERY
- 19. Horizon 1 -TOOLS
- 20. Mastery at Horizon1: Tools Manifests itself in the ability to apply frameworks and tools with a systems imprint (such as causal loop diagramming, SD simulation, social network analysis, issue mapping, paradoxical thinking, full–cost accounting, appreciative inquiry, …). Practice example: we relied on a causal-loop diagram to synthesize insights about the organisational dynamics and dilemmas in a platform organisation HQ.
- 22. Horizon 2 –METHOD Systemic Design Toolkit co-developed by Namahn – shiftN – MaRS Solutions Lab - Systemic Design Association
- 23. Horizon 2 –METHOD Systems thinking infused with design thinking Design thinking infused with systems thinking
- 24. Mastery at Horizon2: Method Manifests itself in the ability to purposively and context-sensitively combine systems oriented tools into multi-faceted interventions with the aim to improve situations perceived as problematic. Practice example: we relied on a systemic design approach to increase the effectiveness of the information exchange between platform HQ and platform members.
- 26. Horizon 3 -LEARNING Our task: "to reconfigure the appreciative basis for our existence" Sir Geoffrey Vickers (1892-1984)
- 27. LUMAS-model Learning for aUser by a Methodologically- informed Approach to a Situation Source: P. Checkland and J. Poulter (2004)
- 28. Can we imaginethat this is how great cathedrals came into being? Copyright © The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia: http://www.effectuation.org/learn/effectuation-101
- 29. Mastery at Horizon3: Learning Manifests itself in the ability to create and maintain a context to increase a social system’s capacity for learning and action. Practice example: we supported the platform organisation to reframe their strategy from ‘defending sectoral interests’ to ‘supporting a cross-sectoral alliance to turn fragilised minorities into a de facto majority that contributes to long- term societal viability.’
- 31. "Good care: persistenttinkering in a world full of complex ambivalence and shifting tensions. (...) What changes along the way? One answer is: what it is to be human. Care practices move us away from rationalist versions of the human being. For rather than insisting on cognitive operations, they involve embodied practices. Rather than requiring impartial decisions, they demand attuned attentiveness and adaptive tinkering. Crucially, in care practices what it means to be human has more to do with being fragile than with mastering the world. This does not imply a docile acceptance of fate: care is active, it seeks to improve life. Annemarie Mol foto: Bob van der Vlist Horizon 4 - Ethos
- 32. Mastery at Horizon4: Ethos Manifests itself in an individual disposition or an organisational culture characterised by suspension of judgment, humility, empathy and an ability to reflexively question identity. Practice example: we support the platform organisation to develop a culture of ‘normative professionalisation’ with staff members being fluent and open in negotiating tensions between personal goals, professional standards and acute needs of individuals in their member organisations.
- 34. Horizon 5 -Epistemology https://www.bioedge.org The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. -- Gregory Bateson
- 35. Mastery at Horizon5 : Epistemology Manifests itself in an ability to intuit and/or articulate the pattern that connects us, mortal and languaging beings with everything else under the sun, and to model that wisdom in personal behaviour. Practice example:
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- 38. “If you cannot grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?” ― Mark Twight
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