"Complexity and Strategy: Productive Applications of Complexity Theory". These are similar to those of
We were the co-founders and Chairpersons of two conferences, in San
Francisco and London, jointly sponsored by us and the Santa Fe
Institute. These conferences featured many of the SFI researchers as
well as others engaged in related areas applicable to corporate
affairs. Over two hundred participants from many of the world's
largest companies and industries from manufacturing to hi-tech to
services shared the experience enthusiastically and, from this
interest and later developments, we created seminars for those who
didn't attend but have expressed interest in applied work.
The emphasis in the seminars is on dialogue, not presentation, within
a structure designed to be both rigorous and creative. The goal is
to answer two questions: "What are the implications of these new
theories and methodologies for organisation?" and "How can these be
applied to contemporary business challenges such as strategy formulation,
innovation, culture change and problem solving?"
The seminars will cover such areas as:
- Understanding complexity and complex adaptive systems such as
markets, organisations and industries.
- Developing techniques for organisations to examine their models,
metaphors and beliefs and adapt new ones as conditions change.
- Creating strategies of innovation and design for businesses to
interact with the unexpected, accidental and ambiguous in their
environments.
- Resolving the tensions between stability and creativity, authorised
and natural, engineered and innovative.
- Examining individual interests, issues and case studies as they
emerge.
Mike McMaster is the author of "The Intelligence Advantage:
Organising for Complexity", founder of the European consulting
company Knowledge Based Development Co Ltd. and speaker at various
conferences relating to knowledge, organisational learning and
intelligence.
To register in the UK, please send details of your name, company and
postion and contact information along with fees of stlg881.25 (which
includes VAT of stlg131.25) with a cheque payable to Santa Fe Center for
Management Strategy to: Pennlands Farm, Collinswood Road, Farnham
Common, Bucks SL2 3LQ UK.
You may contact us for more information by phoning +44 1753 648288 or
Fax +44 1753 648299 or email Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk
The UK seminars begin at 7pm and end by 9:30 on the first day, go from
9am until 5pm on the second day and from 9am until noon on the third
day. Lunch on the full day is included in the price. US time are
slightly different. The next scheduled seminar dates are:
London September 16-18
Santa Fe September 13-15
We are planning full two day conferences with presenters from the
Santa Fe Institute and others in February in Santa Fe and March in
London in 1997 on the subject of Complexity and Technology:
Organising for Innovation.
Michael McMaster : Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk
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Intelligence is the underlying organisational principle
of the universe. Heraclitus
--Michael McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
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