Dear Metaphorum members:
All Metaphorum’s webinars will be at:
5pm UK GMT/BST 12pm Eastern USA
on this Zoom link unless otherwise stated and you will be notified by email.
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Previous Programmes
More details and bios of previous speakers are on these pages:
Looking forward to having you with us.
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Upcoming Webinars
04-Sep-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.
02-Oct-2024
VSM & Ethics
Stephen Hardwood
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.
06-Nov-2024
The Great Transformation
Prof Fredmund Malik
The economy and society are going through one of the greatest transformations in history. It is a paradigmatic mega-change which brings about most risky turbulences. It is no less than a shift from an old to a new world. To master it, a revolutionary new management is needed in order to shift resources in the critical decision zone. For this challenge we have the best solutions ever, amplifying the effectiveness of management by 80fold and speed of change by 100fold.
04-Dec-2024
Diagnosing Complex Organisations with Diverse Cultures — Configuring Mindset Agency Theory, with an application to ASEAN
Dr Tuomo Rautakivi and Prof. Dr. Maurice Yolles
Complex organisations require coherence to achieve adaptive goals through agency. This presentation introduces Mindset Agency Theory (MAT), a metatheoretical framework designed for modelling and diagnosing agency within culturally diverse populations. MAT, a cybernetic multi-ontology framework, delineates five formative traits defining agency character.