The final part of Notes on Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide. Edited by Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell. This section cover Critical Systems Heuristics - it is part of OU Module TU811 and is a part of a Master in Systems Thinking
Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 5 ssmJames Cracknell
Part 5 - Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). What it is, how we use it and why we need it. The quality of management thinking is generally poor, decisions made on the hoof, under pressure and without thought for real ramifications. SSM is a human centered, action orientated tool that, unlike many pieces of analysis brings with it the essential element of worldviews, bias and a way of seeing the situation.
Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 3 vsmJames Cracknell
Viable System Model - Notes Stafford Beer's VSM model - its approach, uses and applications for organisational change and understanding. A part of my TU811 Open University Study - Thinking strategically: systems tools for managing change
Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 4 sodaJames Cracknell
Part 4 - A practical workshop facilitation process that ties into cognitive mapping and Personal Construct Theory. In essence a piece of delivery that underpins change and can be used to explore new facts of business development and value creation
This presentation was used as part of the collaborative work environment designed for delivering a workshop about SSM for group problem solving in the IAF - International Association of Facilitators - European Middle East and Africa, Regional Conference 2014.
Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 5 ssmJames Cracknell
Part 5 - Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). What it is, how we use it and why we need it. The quality of management thinking is generally poor, decisions made on the hoof, under pressure and without thought for real ramifications. SSM is a human centered, action orientated tool that, unlike many pieces of analysis brings with it the essential element of worldviews, bias and a way of seeing the situation.
Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 3 vsmJames Cracknell
Viable System Model - Notes Stafford Beer's VSM model - its approach, uses and applications for organisational change and understanding. A part of my TU811 Open University Study - Thinking strategically: systems tools for managing change
Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 4 sodaJames Cracknell
Part 4 - A practical workshop facilitation process that ties into cognitive mapping and Personal Construct Theory. In essence a piece of delivery that underpins change and can be used to explore new facts of business development and value creation
This presentation was used as part of the collaborative work environment designed for delivering a workshop about SSM for group problem solving in the IAF - International Association of Facilitators - European Middle East and Africa, Regional Conference 2014.
What is Innovation?
Types of innovation
Bill Ford on Innovation
What is Creativity?
Portrait of a Creative Person
Six Tips To Help You Enhance Your Creativity
Important one: Find what you love to do
A Suggested Innovation Framework
Case Study: 3M – How do they manage innovation?
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In this presentation you will learn about design tools and techniques to solve wicked problems, using Systems Thinking.
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Presented at EuroIA 2015 with Koen Peters.
Systems thinking is perhaps one of the most critical tools in handling the complexity in coping challenges we are facing now and in the coming decades. This is a brief introduction to the basic concepts in System Thinking. It is defined and organized in a way that can provide those basics for every audience. I hope you find it helpful!
Systems Thinking:Applications to Space SystemsCaltech
2019 Space Tech Expo
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on how a system's constituent parts interrelate over time and within the context of larger systems. The systems thinking approach contrasts with traditional analysis, which studies systems by breaking them down into their separate elements. Systems thinking facilitates collaboration among space systems customers, domain analysts, designers, and component manufacturers. Communication at multiple levels of abstractions and multiple levels of system detail can offer new insights into space system context, complexity, component interrelationships, and emergent properties.
* Learn the fundamental principles and concepts behind systems thinking
* Contrast systems thinking methods with more traditional engineering analyses
* Review case studies of systems thinking applied to space system conceptualization, design, testing, and deployment
* Understand insights by organizations that have been applying systems thinking to space systems
* Identify resources to further develop systems thinking skills and capabilities within your organization
In the age of speed, making decisions quickly is critical to project success. This presentation considers the decision making process, decision making styles, and how to focus and tailor discussions to arrive at meaningful decisions quickly.
Part of the Soft systems methodology, Rich Pictures provide a mechanism for learning about complex or ill-defined problems by drawing detailed ("rich") representations of them.
This short introductory webinar explains the basic graphic elements that are normally used in RPs and highlights their value as an action learning process.
What are the core ideas underlying the systems approach?Sjon van 't Hof
In 10 slides I will explain above concept map which enables an integrated conceptualization of the logical relationships of the core characteristics of wicked problems with the basic requirements and workings of the systems approach. This will provide the necessary scaffolding for a meaningful understanding of the design principles underlying a 10-step version of the systems approach in ‘Wicked Solutions’, as will be discussed later (follow my blog CSL4D). Sjon van ’t Hof, August 2016
What is Innovation?
Types of innovation
Bill Ford on Innovation
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Six Tips To Help You Enhance Your Creativity
Important one: Find what you love to do
A Suggested Innovation Framework
Case Study: 3M – How do they manage innovation?
Gigamap example by Manuela Aguirre: https://www.slideshare.net/ManuelaAguirre/policy-support-full-presentation
In this presentation you will learn about design tools and techniques to solve wicked problems, using Systems Thinking.
Systems Thinking looks at the whole of a system rather than focusing on its individual parts, to better understand complex phenomena. Systems Thinking contrasts with analytic thinking: you solve problems by going deeper, by looking at the greater whole of a system and the relations between its elements, rather than solving individual problems in a linear way via simple cause and effect explanations.
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Presented at EuroIA 2015 with Koen Peters.
Systems thinking is perhaps one of the most critical tools in handling the complexity in coping challenges we are facing now and in the coming decades. This is a brief introduction to the basic concepts in System Thinking. It is defined and organized in a way that can provide those basics for every audience. I hope you find it helpful!
Systems Thinking:Applications to Space SystemsCaltech
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* Understand insights by organizations that have been applying systems thinking to space systems
* Identify resources to further develop systems thinking skills and capabilities within your organization
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In 10 slides I will explain above concept map which enables an integrated conceptualization of the logical relationships of the core characteristics of wicked problems with the basic requirements and workings of the systems approach. This will provide the necessary scaffolding for a meaningful understanding of the design principles underlying a 10-step version of the systems approach in ‘Wicked Solutions’, as will be discussed later (follow my blog CSL4D). Sjon van ’t Hof, August 2016
Chapter 4 Administration Responsibility The Key to Administrativ.docxketurahhazelhurst
Chapter 4: Administration Responsibility: The Key to Administrative Ethics In order to access the following resource, click the links below. Watch the following segments from the full video listed below: Utilitarian Theory (segment 10 of 15) and Duty Theory (Segment 11 of 15). These video segments provide more information on two important theories in ethics. Films Media Group (Producer). (2004). Ethics: What is right [Video file]. Retrieved from https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login?auth=CAS&url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPl aylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=32706 The transcript for this video can be found by clicking on “Transcript” in the gray bar to the right of the video in the Films on Demand database. Unit Lesson Philosophical Theories: Related to Ethical Decision-Making Many theorists have concluded that several decision-making models exist that focus on consistent norms and have derived from society and individual impressions. The textbook cites several sources that are prominent in this field, and lists some of the well-known founders of these theories. Participants that develop topics of public policy, such as social equity, education, conflict resolution, or human rights, may base their decisionmaking on the beliefs related to certain philosophies. Utilitarianism: Approach Based on Consequences Based on consequences, an action may be right or wrong. Jeremy Bentham and John Steward Mills derived this theory that was completely based on reason. The authors did not want their theory based on religion or a particular societal level of norms. More so, Utilitarianism wanted everyone to have access to a thinking mind and is based off an idea of utility or usefulness. An abbreviated summary of Bentham and Mills theory can be summarized as “the greatest good, for the greatest number or population.” We can assume that “good” means happiness or pleasure for most people. Another concept closely related to this outcome is efficacy, which implies the “least desired input for greatest desired output.” Business and government usually take this strategy for different reasons – mainly associated with resources. If one thinks about successful business and government practices, the decision-making effort outcomes generally result in products and services that work best, cost least, and last the longest. The consumer mindset also uses this simple and natural buying process for decision-making. The successful business leader uses this variable for short and long-term investment decisions, and the public manager focuses on successful public services, which utilizes public funding in a prudent and wise fashion. Another public example is the government buying process where services and products are purchased though a competitive vetting process where needs, values, and timely delivery are critical components of the purchasing decision model. Efficacy also applies to students who UNIT II STUDY GUIDE Established Philosophies Affecting Public Eth ...
Chapter 3 Frameworks for Diagnosing Organizations What” to ChangeWilheminaRossi174
Chapter 3 Frameworks for Diagnosing Organizations “What” to Change in an Organization
There is nothing as practical as a good theory.
—Kurt Lewin
Chapter Overview
· Change leaders need to understand both the process of making organizational modifications (the how to change as outlined in Chapter 2) and the ability to diagnose organizational problems and take actions to change an organization.
· Determining what needs changing requires clear organizational frameworks. Change leaders need to comprehend the complexity and interrelatedness of organizational components: how analysis needs to occur at different organizational levels, and how organizations and their environments will shift over time, requiring further analysis and action.
· This chapter outlines several frameworks that one can use to analyze organizational dynamics:
1. Nadler and Tushman’s Congruence Model balances the complexity needed for organizational analysis, and the simplicity needed for action planning and communication, and provides the over-arching structure for this book;
2. Sterman’s Systems Dynamics Model views the nonlinear and interactive nature of organizations;
3. Quinn’s Competing Values Model provides a framework that bridges individual and organizational levels of analysis;
4. Greiner’s Phases of Organizational Growth Model highlights organizational changes that will—inevitably—occur over time in organizations, from their infancy to maturity; this model is particularly useful for entrepreneurs who sometimes need to be reminded that change needs to occur, even in their small start-up organizations; and
5. Stacey’s Complexity Theory is introduced to highlight the interactive, time-dependent nature of organizations and their evolutionary processes.
• Each framework aids a change agent in diagnosing a particular kind of organizational issue and suggests remedies for what ails an institution.
In Chapter 2, we considered the process of change (the Change Path). In this chapter, we deal with what aspects of an organization to change. Differentiating the process from the content is sometimes confusing, but the rather unusual example below will highlight the difference.
Bloodletting is a procedure that was performed to help alleviate the ills of mankind. . . . In the early 19th century, adults with good health from the country districts of England were bled as regularly as they went to market; this was considered to be preventive medicine.1
The practice of bloodletting was based on a set of assumptions about how the body worked—bloodletting would diminish the quantity of blood in the system and thus lessen the redness, heat, and swelling that was occurring. As a result, people seemed to get better after this treatment—but only in the short term. The reality was that they were weakened by the loss of blood. As we know today, the so-called science of bloodletting was based on an inaccurate understanding of the body. It is likely that bloodletting professionals worked to imp ...
Chapter 3 Frameworks for Diagnosing Organizations What” to Change.docxchristinemaritza
Chapter 3 Frameworks for Diagnosing Organizations “What” to Change in an Organization
There is nothing as practical as a good theory.
—Kurt Lewin
Chapter Overview
· Change leaders need to understand both the process of making organizational modifications (the how to change as outlined in Chapter 2) and the ability to diagnose organizational problems and take actions to change an organization.
· Determining what needs changing requires clear organizational frameworks. Change leaders need to comprehend the complexity and interrelatedness of organizational components: how analysis needs to occur at different organizational levels, and how organizations and their environments will shift over time, requiring further analysis and action.
· This chapter outlines several frameworks that one can use to analyze organizational dynamics:
1 Nadler and Tushman’s Congruence Model balances the complexity needed for organizational analysis, and the simplicity needed for action planning and communication, and provides the over-arching structure for this book;
2 Sterman’s Systems Dynamics Model views the nonlinear and interactive nature of organizations;
3 Quinn’s Competing Values Model provides a framework that bridges individual and organizational levels of analysis;
4 Greiner’s Phases of Organizational Growth Model highlights organizational changes that will—inevitably—occur over time in organizations, from their infancy to maturity; this model is particularly useful for entrepreneurs who sometimes need to be reminded that change needs to occur, even in their small start-up organizations; and
5 Stacey’s Complexity Theory is introduced to highlight the interactive, time-dependent nature of organizations and their evolutionary processes. • Each framework aids a change agent in diagnosing a particular kind of organizational issue and suggests remedies for what ails an institution.
In Chapter 2, we considered the process of change (the Change Path). In this chapter, we deal with what aspects of an organization to change. Differentiating the process from the content is sometimes confusing, but the rather unusual example below will highlight the difference.
Bloodletting is a procedure that was performed to help alleviate the ills of mankind. . . . In the early 19th century, adults with good health from the country districts of England were bled as regularly as they went to market; this was considered to be preventive medicine.1
The practice of bloodletting was based on a set of assumptions about how the body worked—bloodletting would diminish the quantity of blood in the system and thus lessen the redness, heat, and swelling that was occurring. As a result, people seemed to get better after this treatment—but only in the short term. The reality was that they were weakened by the loss of blood. As we know today, the so-called science of bloodletting was based on an inaccurate understanding of the body. It is likely that bloodletting professionals worked to improve ...
The experiential utility: how behavioural economics can help hci to define qu...Stefano Bussolon
Economists define utility as the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service. Neoclassical economics assume that humans act as perfectly rational agents whose ultimate goal is to maximize their subjective utility. Behavioral economists and psychologists, however, showed that people behave in ways that violate the neoclassical axioms, and follow a number of cognitive heuristics.
Nonetheless, the concept of utility is useful, psychologically intuitive, and there is some evidence that some regions of the primates' brain encode a form of "common currency" of the value of a good.
I will present an experiential utility model that is psychologically plausible, and the main dimensions of the model will be mapped on an experiential utility space. The practical applicability of the map will be shown in a case study where two types of insurance companies - traditional (broker mediated) and direct (online) companies will be mapped on the dimensions of the experience utility map.
Ethical Principles in Regulatory ManagementAnalyze ethical princronnasleightholm
Ethical Principles in Regulatory Management
Analyze ethical principles in regulatory management of private organizations, from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. How does this differ from public organizations?
Unit 2 Ethics and Human Resources Complexities in Public Administration
INTRODUCTION
Unit 2 - Readings
Use your Public Human Resource Management text to complete the following:
• Review Chapter 14, "Motivating Public Service Employees in the Era of the "New Normal"."
Motivation of employees is both an intrinsic and extrinsic process. The text explores both processes in
public service employees.
Use the Research Library to read the following:
• Hsieh, C., Yang, K., & Fu, K. (2012). Motivational bases and emotional labor: Assessing the impact of
public service motivation. Public Administration Review, 72(2), 241–251.
• Perry, J. L., Hondeghem, A., & Wise, L. R. (2010). Revisiting the motivational bases of public service:
Twenty years of research and an agenda for the future. Public Administration Review, 70(5), 681–690.
• Clerkin, R. M., & Coggburn, J. D. (2012). The dimensions of public service motivation and sector work
preferences. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 32(3), 209–235.
• Vandenabeele, W. (2007). Toward a public administration theory of public service motivation. Public
Management Review, 9(4), 545–556.
Readings (Optional)
• French, P. E., & Emerson, M. C. (2014). Assessing the variations in reward preference for local
government employees in terms of position, public service motivation, and public sector motivation.
Public Performance & Management Review, 37(4), 552–576.
• Alonso, P., & Lewis, G. B. (2001). Public service motivation and job performance: Evidence from the
federal sector. The American Review of Public Administration , 31 (4), 363–380.
• Wright, B. E. (2007). Public service and motivation: Does mission matter? Public Administration
Review, 67 (1), 54–64.
A Note on Theory
What is theory? How does it add value to human resource management? Merriam-Webster's Online
Dictionary offers three simple definitions of theory:
1. An idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events.
2. The general principles or ideas that relate to a particular subject.
3. An idea that is suggested or presented as possibly true but that is not known or proven to be true.
Given these definitions, we can extrapolate that theory can be used in human resource management in the
following ways:
• Theories offer explanations that guide practice, provide insight into problems, and point toward
solutions.
• The generality of theories makes them adaptable for many different situations.
In addition, core theories are widely known by most practitioners in our field. That makes these theories
valuable in communicating management ideas to other professionals and for justifying actions or procedures
that you propose. This is why it is important to learn to explicitly relate you ...
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Notes on reader introducing systems approaches prt 6 csh
1. Notes on-
Systems Approaches to Managing
Change: Part 6
Critical System Heuristics
A Practical Guide
Eds. – Martin Reynolds & Sue Holwell
2. Chapter 6
Critical Systems
Heuristics (CSH)
Werner Ulrich and Martin Reynolds
• A framework for reflective
professional practice focused on a central
tool of ‘boundary critique.
• A particular aspect of CSH is the way
that it welcomes, encourages and uses
the natural ‘tensions’ that exist between
opposing perspectives of management.
• So ‘situation vs. system’, ‘is vs. ought’
and judgements which people may have
who are ‘involved vs. affected but
uninvolved’
• Boundary critique is a process that is
participatory – an unfolding and
questioning of judgments that leads to
pragmatic outcomes.
3. 6.1 What is CSH?
CSH is a ‘philosophical framework to
support ‘professional’ reflective practice
that through a process of reflection and
discussion unfolds the core assumptions
held within the thinking through of any
system.
In its basic format it consists of 12
‘boundary’ questions – not to be used as
the means to populate the existing but as
a tool to understand situations so as to
design systems with a view to
improvement
4. 1. Making sense of situations: understanding assumptions and
appreciating the bigger picture
Making explicit the boundaries of system, to inform thinking
and cultivate an holistic awareness that then widens the issue.
These include:
• Values and motivations
• A stakeholders take on a situation and the efforts to improve
it
• Power structures
• Influential forces that define the problem and limit or
expand the reach of suitable outcomes
• The knowledge basis
• What skills and experiences are relevant to the situation in
respect of extracted learning
• The moral basis
• For those who would feel the benefits and costs associated
to our actions but who are not directly involved in the
situation.
These four dimensions in CSH are called ‘sources of influence’
1. Sources of Motivation
2. Source of control
3. Source of knowledge
4. Sources of legitimacy
5. 2. Unfolding multiple
perspectives: promoting
mutual understanding
• The 12 Boundary Questions (now to be referred as CSHq1-12) are
there to help us define what is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’ of the situation.
• The boundary judgements help us examine the most apt frame from
which to address the situation.
In reference to the table on slide 237
• Each question is framed in two ways – a normative or ideal model –
the ‘what ought to be’ and the descriptive ‘ what is’
• The table allows for comparisons to be made between the four
sources of influence – we can compare and contrast the judgements
• Furthermore we can compare and contrast the judgements
between stakeholders who are ‘involved’ and those affected
• Finally – we can compare the entire set of boundary judgments
associated to one system with that of the boundary judgements
associated to an entirely different system.
• It is this that allows us to counter the well known managerial
situation of ‘talking at cross purposes’ or ‘talking past each other’
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6. 3. Promoting
reflective practice:
analysing situations
and changing them
If we know where the boundary
judgements lie we can
understand where potential
friction exists which can only
help us improve the situation as
we widen the gene pool of
perspectives.
Boundary judgements can
sometimes be imposed on an
individual, whether involved
directly or not. CSH helps
disclose these issues and through
an emancipatory process help
free people to make their own
judgements.
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7. CSH & the traditions
of thought
Systems thinking – as a reference system circumscribed by
the 12 questions
• Churchman explored this through his writing and
developed the model from a set of nine ‘necessary
conditions’ that form a system (CHSq1-9) on which he added
three additional conditions relating to the following;
philosophers of the system, enemies of the system and
significance of the system.
• The enemies created the important CSH heuristic device
of ‘tension’ as a creative tool.
Practical philosophy
European traditional ‘critical philosophy’ and the ‘American’
pragmatic philosophy with its action orientated approach
blended by Ulrich into critical pragmatism
Critical Systems Thinking lies in the notion that all and every
facet of systems thinking is ‘partial’ in that it neither can be
inclusive of the entire universe of considerations nor can it
be an effective tool for every person involved.
Therefore any systems based approach has to acknowledge
what is NOT included and that they must include multiple
perspectives
8. 6.2 Applying CSH
Challenging
situation
Boundary reflection Boundary discourse
NRUA -Botswana
Analysis of existing
framework so as to
understand limitations.
Address how the
participatory planning
can be improved
Report on limitations of
existing framework.
Make everyone aware of
stakeholders who are
marginalised and those
who are represented.
Communicate
improvements to the
stakeholders
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Develop the planning
process to make it more
inclusive of wider
stakeholder groups
The promotion of a
broad range of
stakeholder interests
focused on preservation
and development of
wetlands.
Two distinct case studies both around
natural resource planning but CSH being
used for two distinct purposes:
1. As the means to evaluate an approach
that was being adopted so as to
identify limitations, provide a critical
framework with a view to rebalance
the marginalised stakeholder and
suggest ways the existing planning
process could be enhanced.
2. As the means to understand,
communicate and enable sustainable
planning and development whilst
accommodating the needs of wider,
disenfranchised stakeholder group
9. 6.2.2 Using CSH as an
intervention tool:
some basic concepts
CSH is a framework like any of the other
fours system based tools we have looked at.
A piece of scaffolding that allows practioners
to work in such a way so as to improve the
situation. The basic aims are:
• Making sense
• Inclusivity of multiple perspectives
• Promoting reflective practice
The boundary questions are there to uncover
the reference systems that inform our view.
CSH provides the means to conduct a well
structured conversation between systems
and situations that is conducting a systematic
boundary critique.
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10. 6.2.2.1 Systems Versus
situation
Systems are conceptual constructs NOT real-world entities, that is they
help in the description of complex realities.
• Both SSM and CSH are conceptual tools for learning about reality
NOT positioned within reality. SSM looks to compare the practioners
perceptions against reality whilst CSH “makes problematic’ the
situation perceived to be problematic’ itself” (p251). This is done so
that the practioner can connect with and engage with their own
assumptions.
• ‘System and situation’ are seen as a continuum in CSH, at two
extremes of proximity against reality. By engaging with this we are
already considering the two as being abstract and distinct from the
infinitely rich domain of the real-world.
• CSH uses three separate but interrelated terms that refer to varying
degrees of reality
• Maps – close to reality but never the same as
• Design – less proximate to reality but closer to what ought to be
• Model – heuristic devices to engage with reality through maps and
design. CSH itself can be seen as a model of reflective practice.
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11. 6.2.2.1 Systems
Versus situation
Do not confuse a map with the ‘territory’ nor with the perception of a
‘territory’ which of course is a map in its own right.
• Imbedded in the map and situation are own perceptions so taking
a system map and comparing this against a situation of our
understanding offers no insight. This is critical perspective that the
idea of a situation as being a map, influenced by the same thinking –
we can though consider the differences between maps as an
indication of our judgments as we build different models.
• Maps are descriptions of the real world, and common in our daily
language; financial system, hydraulic system, legal system, ecosystem.
We understand this notion so why deviate from it?
• Equally – traffic systems, timetables, systems to model climate
change or social conditions – are systems we think of as models not
descriptions of the real-world.
• This definition process, in CSH terms, is called reference systems
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12. 6.2.2.2
Reference
Systems
A reference system is ‘the context that
matters when it comes to assessing the
merits and defects of a proposition’ -
Ulrich
So much of what systems thinking is about is
applying models to problematic situations without
a thought as to how that situation has been
defined. We have to see the world through the
eyes of another, even through our own eyes in a
critical but informed manner. It is therefore crucial
that we are clear on which lens we are looking
through. CSH through the notion of reference
system, allows us to make explicit which lens this
is. By engaging with the 12 boundary questions
and the sources of influence (motivation, control,
knowledge and legitimacy) we create a common
language to facilitate the surfacing and review of
the boundaries. This is NOT the setting of
boundaries but exploring them. We do not do this
because we have the answer but because we want
to explore the selective nature of our claims.
13. 6.2.3 A Core Concept of
CSH: Systematic
Boundary Critique
The process of unfolding – that is making both ourselves
and others aware of the prevailing boundary
judgements – those areas of selectivity. This is a deep
reminder that no investigation using system’s
techniques can be ever holistic.
The constant tension between system and situation is
addressed through the critiquing process by first,
reducing selectivity as much as possible and secondly, by
openly acknowledging what selectivity there is.
The boundary judgments of stakeholder, stake and
stakeholding go through a systematic question process
shown in the table opposite. The aim of this questioning
is to explore how well the judgements fit the criteria of:
• Relevance
• Justification
• Ethical defendability
CSH seeks to be the tool to promote discourse and
debate, to lead to more informed decision making based
off the beliefs and tenets of Critical Systems Thinking.
This is the step away from holism to systems practice –
which is no guarantor of rational decision making.
14. 6.2.3.1 Unfolding
Boundary
judgements
Aims are to uncover prevailing selectivity and partiality within
reference system and inherent in the claim.
How? By examining each claim and how its impacted by boundary
judgements. We do this by using the 12 boundary questions and
applying them in the most effective way to unfold the issues.
No particular order is needed – but at the start a sequence (opposite)
is advisable until you become a seasoned practioner. The sequence
works as well with ‘ought’ or is. Often best to start with the ‘ought’
side as here we are dealing with aspirations. If we are in a group
session to start with is may create recriminations, blame and a need to
source accountability. If you start with ‘ought’ what you are offering
them is to share their vision.
Opposite we see the four sources of selectivity (influence) mapped to
the three boundary categories – this then shapes a narrative which
allows us to challenge the claims of a system as well as validate it. This
helps us stand back from the claim and look at the wider, bigger
picture through a discursive reflective effort.
Churchman saw three objectives in using CSH; to generate goals,
objectives and ideals from which to plan strategies for each.
The focus has now shifted to ‘value clarification’ rather than a desire
to comprehensively understand every detail of the whole – an
idealistic goal that inhibited the opportunity to gain distance and see
the selectivity.
15. 6.2.3.2
Questioning
Boundary
Judgements
If we define (settle) a boundary it becomes fixed,
closed down to further analysis they become ‘given’.
The process we engage with is ‘testing’ – we assume
that the claim has had some prior judgements made
but this process is about making these systemically
defined and the results published for all to see.
In practice, no one can ever claim to have the right
answer – so we have to approach this from a position
of ‘selectivity but by maintaining transparency,
democratic decision making.
How do we know the quality of the decision? What
are the alternatives? Could we defend our choices to
others?
We need to consider the scope of the claim, its
nature from not just one position but that of others.
Claims have consequences many of which will be
easily managed or easy to determine, some though
may need professional help to discern the
implications.
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16. 6.2.3.2 Questioning
Boundary
Judgements (Cont.)
Boundary reflection
• Do the ‘is’ boundary
judgements relevant to each
of the contexts that matter
agree with the ‘ought’
boundary judgements? Is
there a discrepancy between
‘is’ and ‘ought’ – if so should
we revise the boundary
assumptions?
Here we are aiming to handle
the boundary questioning in a
self-critical mode
17. 6.2.3.2 Questioning
Boundary
Judgements (Cont.)
Boundary discourse
• Are there any conflicting
boundary issues between the
different contexts that matter? If
there are then this may help in
understanding why we disagree
with what the issue is. We may be
able to revise boundary
judgements to accommodate
perspectives although we may still
not agree on a solution.
This mode is all about improving
shared understanding and to help
through questioning those who
may not have considered their
judgements in such a self critical
fashion.
18. 6.2.4.1 Ideal
mapping
(Identifying the
‘Ought’)
• In the case study presented the author
first set out to map and therefore clarify the
normative aspects of the reference system
with a what ‘ought’ to be analysis.
• This started with a reflection by the
author on their personal reference systems
which meant getting comfortable and
identifying their natural bias. From this he
defined (titled) his reference system so as to
give it the boundary and at least start to. Any
evaluation needs a starting point, it will
change over times as the process and
thinking develops, but the first part is to go
through the ideal mapping exercise, the 12
boundary questions unfolding in a pattern
such as the one shown previously.
• The aim is not to assume we occupy an
ideal world it is to present what is ‘real’ vs.
what is ideal allowing us the distance to be
critically aware of what improvement could
look like.
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19. 6.2.4.2 Descriptive
Mapping (The ‘Is’
Analysis
Two pronged approach – you
first identify the stakeholders
and then specify roles
performed. This allows you to
‘surface’ key problems that may
exist between the two.
• Stage 1: Identifying
Stakeholder Groups
Be aware that roles may not be
mutually exclusive
• Stage 2: Eliciting Concerns
and Key Problems
Be aware that you will collect a
lot of information presented as
maps which will be critiques
against the normative maps
produced earlier
20. 6.2.4.3 Critique:
‘Ought’ and Is’
A key aspect of CSH is to
embrace the concept of
creative disruption.
Critiquing the normative and
descriptive is not a negative it
is a means of providing the
platform for improvement. It is
the means by which we
understand the existing
practices, the contexts that
they operate in and the means
by which we can improve
them
21. 6.2.4.4 Extra-discursive and
Discursive Evaluation
In the example of systematic boundary critique presented in the text the
practioner utilised the CSH categories in a purposeful way distinct to their needs.
This customised approach was broken into three:
i. The perceived stakeholder role
ii. The particulars of the project since stakeholders had multiple stakes in
different projects
iii. Information that was derived from previous interviews as well as additional
research
It is advisable that as the study starts that a culture of journaling is embraced since
this is the primary source material for the ‘is’ mapping.
The real value of CSH lies in the dialogue it generates through the sharing of
findings derived from interviews, informal gatherings and via the interim reporting
stage to stakeholders.
Boundaries are key sources of conflict (therefore areas of creativity) – they are
areas of power-relations, expert-biases and places were the wider legitimacy of
the project can be explored.
Report formats can be structured as
• Authors perceptions relating to central issues, underlying values, purpose of
project, issues of power and decision making, relevant knowledge and moral
underpinning
• A description of authors own role and purpose
This is primarily a qualitative exercise aimed at creating pathways to improve
collaboration and identify responsibility for overall improvement in the situation.
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22. 6.2.5.1
Developing CSH
Literacy
We cannot prompt for a discursive
approach if we do not first create a
universal language. In the practical
application of CSH there are two aims
for developing CSH literacy, the first
to create a language suitable to be
put into a system such as
Compendium; the second was to
create accessibility into the work for
those who for whatever reason
cannot access the language. In the
pursuit of ‘boundary reflection and
discourse’ Ulrich created four basic
templates which were crucial in
providing direction of the boundary
critique as well as highlight practical
aspects like raining needs.
The more fluent people are in the
language the better the motivation
there is to engage in discursive
activities.
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23. 6.2.5.1 Developing CSH Literacy -
Four templates for boundary critique
Templates for four basic applications of boundary critique
(P.276)
Template (a):
Purpose:
Guiding question:
Ideal Mapping
‘Vision building’
What is our vision? (or: Where do we want to go from
here?)
Elementary use of boundary
questions used in the ‘ought’
mode
Template (b):
Purpose:
Guiding question:
Evaluation
‘Value clarification’
Where are we standing? (or: How satisfied are we
with the state of affairs?)
Elementary use of boundary
questions used in the ‘ought’
and ‘is’ modes
Template (c):
Purpose:
Guiding question:
Reframing
‘Boundary revision’
What’s the relevant context? (or: How else can we
frame the picture?)
Using this in the ‘ought’ and
‘is’ modes but accompanied
by a critique for each
Template (d):
Purpose:
Guiding question:
Challenge
‘Emancipation’
Don’t you claim too much? (or: How can we rationally
claim this is right?)
Advanced mode of use for
boundary critique leading to
questions that are countered
by suggestions, doubts,
contradictions and ‘what-if’
analysis
24. 6.2.5.1 Developing
CSH Literacy –
Construction of
templates
Use of ‘own language’
Where possible to create fluency
in the dialogues and discussions
language needs to be made
reflective of the participants
needs. The table opposite is a
type of decision tree used for an
ideal mapping template
Tables such as these can be
constructed for templates b to d,
all with increasing levels of
complexity
25. 6.2.5.3 Team
Building for and
by Using
Boundary Critique
The framework for team development
understands the two prevailing
tensions in systems thinking and
participation:
1. Tension between system and
situations
2. Tension between differing
perspectives
Using the concepts of boundary
discourse areas of conflict can be
identified and the pursuit of shared
practice derived from mutual
acknowledged understanding (though
not shared) can be attained.
This commonality helps to develop
team cohesion.
26. 6.3 Developing
CSH skills and
Significance
6.3.1 Boundary Critique and
Personal Confidence
Good professional practice is
enhanced with an appreciation for
an aptitude to uncover and work in
the field of boundary critique. It is
not enough to just recognise that
boundaries exist and treat them as
hostile to our views we also need
to understand the perspectives of
others, views and judgements that
are themselves delimited by their
own boundary judgements.
So boundary reflection and
discourse have much to do with our
own working styles and abilities
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27. 6.3.2 Recognising
Boundary Judgements
– Keeping them fluid
• What role does boundary judgements play? On way of
familiarising yourself more with boundary judgements is to
listen to arguments, trivial to consequential, and bring in
the perceptions of boundary’s that you hear. How people
misunderstand what others say or talk at cross purposes.
Then you gain an appreciation of the value of boundary
judgements and you will learn to bring this thinking in
continuously. As people discuss with you will be asking
yourself what sources of motivation,. Control, knowledge
and legitimacy they bring to their arguments and thinking.
• “To understand the role of boundary judgements
means to keep them under review and fluid rather than
allowing them to become ‘hard’ and taken for granted.”
P284
• How do we make boundary judgements visible and
fluid?
• Two basic approaches are via ‘systematic iteration’ and
systematic triangulation’
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6.3.2.1 Systematic
Iteration of
Boundary
Judgements
All boundary judgments are interdependent so that new
information that modifies one judgment will be susceptible to
change.
The process that we follow to unfurl and question is therefore
not a one-off piece of deliberation it is a cycle of multiple
revisions that takes us through a weaving path of changing
sequences and reflective as well an iterative process.
There are three important aspects to the iterative process for
boundary judgements:
1. As we generate new insights into our reference system
forcing us to revise boundary judgements we need not get
hung up on ‘getting them right’ at the start.
2. Since the 12 boundary questions are themselves
interdependent it does not matter where we start. We can
let the reflection and associated dialogue unfold
organically
3. And since all of this is ‘iterative’ we can start with any
boundary judgement and then reflect this insight into what
we have previously discovered, Similarly as we flit between
‘is an ought’ we will further create deeper understanding
around the nature of the prevailing boundary
This will become easier over time, the more we use it and engage
with it the greater we are at ease creating a natural ebb and flow
to the inquiry.
29. 6.3.2.2 Systemic
Triangulation
Boundary judgements are influenced by two other sets of
judgements – these are:
• What we perceive to be reality that is what we observe or
expect to happen as a response to our actions. These
constitute judgements of fact.
• What we intuitively see as ‘improvement’ that is how we
move the existing ‘is’ to a ‘goal’ based on a measure of
worth. These observations judgements of value.
So now we have a triad of judgements, fact, value and
boundary. A boundary is defined by what facts and values are
included – they are seen as being interdependent of each
other and both are reliant upon by the same boundary
judgements. There is an interplay between each of the three
vertices, Ulrich calls this the eternal triangle.
As a systems practioner I need to challenge myself to stand
back from my own reference system and appreciate it from
another's perspective. It I a core skill and one that needs to
become a habit. As Ulrich says
“The triangle figure offers itself since figuratively
speaking, each angle in a triangle depends on the other
two. We cannot modify any one without simultaneously
modifying the other two.
30. 6.3.2.2 Systemic
Triangulation
(Cont.)
Systemic Triangulation serves five critical aims:
1. It underpins reflective practice
2. It helps us communicate our own biases thus
qualifying our own proposals
3. It acts as a filter to others selectivity thus
allowing us to see and assess the merits of
their arguments
4. It improves communication by promoting
understanding and highlighting the differences
that hinder the ability to share a mutual
understanding of each others views.
5. It can deliver tolerance of views that can lead
to shared productive working. Once we fully
adopt the triangulation mindset we appreciate
that no one person can have a monopoly on
factual accuracy, or he ascendancy in the more
rights and values
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31. 6.3.3 Towards a
New Ethos of
Professional
Responsibility
The five critical elements of the previous slide act as a new
ethos of responsibility for systems practitioners.
It is the tenets of values and behaviours that all
professional systems thinker need to adhere to.
6.3.3.1 “Context Matters”: Working with the Tension of
System and Situation
Context matters – that is the key call to action when
thinking about boundary critique. “What is the relevant
context?” Or simply “Which context matters and why does
it matter? Broken down – the first part is about relevance
and an invitation to reflect on the situation, the second part
we are asked to consider the validity of the context. What
are the arguments that support or challenge the context of
the situation?
Getting to grips with context is about coming to terms with
the tension between system and situation. It helps to stand
back and judge our own perspective, to continuously ask
questions to capture the situation and the perception that
we have.
Tension of System and Situation
32. 6.3.3 Towards a
New Ethos of
Professional
Responsibility
(Cont.)
Boundary critique must therefore include
both system and situation – it must inform
both and in doing so make our systems
maps that much more replete.
A good practioner must remain open to
others perceptions- it is this sense of
openness and respect that will help bring
out the issues that will revise the initial
maps.
It should operate in the background – if we
make our questioning to forthright people
will switch off possibly even become
defensive.
We will approach this practice not from the
position of authority or as an expert but in
the vein of a competent partner, that is on
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33. 6.3.3.2 “Deep
Complementarism”: The
Significance of Using CSH in
Support of Other
Methodologies and Methods
This deep appreciation of boundary
critique should help us apply the
thinking to other methodologies. We will
adopt a new openness for what others
see as valuable regardless of whether it
is ‘had’, ‘soft’ or ‘critical’ or any other
approach.
Problem situations are dynamic, shift
around and may well respond to
different approaches; that dos not mean
that application of the eternal triangle is
not valid, far from it, its enhancing.
Boundary critique should be a skill all
practioners adopt not as the means of
replacement but the means of
enhancement. It is the reflective practice
that makes this tool such a potent one.
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34. 6.3.3.3 “Seeing the World
Through the Eyes of Others”:
Systems Thinking a
Constructive Critique
What insight or value does CSH
contribute in respect of the desire “to see
the world through the eyes of another”?
Or for that matter how does CSH help us
to be constructively critical?
Th world is messy and a significant part of
the complexity comes from the context of
the situation and accordingly how far
that situation impacts, at least from the
perspective of interested stakeholders.
As we become more practiced in this
process so we will be more adepts at
using the process to stimulate our
thinking, eventually every situation will
present itself as a challenge to
understand where the boundary lies and
what the context is and ought to be.
“Dare to articulate your own boundary
judgements and to question those of
others!”
Make this our mantra as we become
seasoned systems thinkers
35. End of Part 6
Notes by James
Cracknell BA (Hons.)
As part of TU811 OU
Course Systems
Tools for Managing
Change
Reynolds, M. and Holwell, S. (2010) Introducing Systems Approaches, in
Martin Reynolds, Sue Holwell (Eds.) Approaches to managing Change: A
Practical Guide. London: Springer in association with The Open University