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Recent Webinars
08.10.2024
Organizing success critical tasks in a production plant with the Viable System Model
Judith Hennemann
A Practice Application of VSM …
02.10.2024
VSM & Ethics
Stephen Harwood
Technology is Janus-faced with it having both a good and a dark side, this highlighting the ethics domain. This has implications for the implementation of technology in general. Extending the notion of technology implementation as one form of managed change, these implications extend to how we handle change, especially change in complex situations.
04.09.2024
The Topologies of Prediction: Management, Cybernetics, and Artificial Intelligence
Mark Johnson
AI’s recent advances mean that it is now a fundamental constituent of the environment for all of us, and the challenge for organisations is to adapt to it. This entails a deeper understanding of what the technology is, and this in turn invites a reinspection of cybernetic theory.