Systemic Business Community

The program for ISSS Tokyo 2007 has scheduled three 90-minute sessions for the Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and Industry:

• Session 1 will be held on Thursday, August 9, 09:00 to 10:30;
• Session 2 will be on the same day, 14:30 to 16:00; and
• Session 3 will be held on Friday, August 10, 09:00 to 10:30.

These sessions are to be held in room W932.

As described in the Tokyo 2007 Calls for Papers, online discussion is encouraged in advance of the conference (and possibly even after the conference has long since passed).

In the third session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007, three papers are scheduled:

• Teresa A. Daniel “Worlds Apart: a Focus on the “Great Divide” Within the HRM Scholar- Practitioner Community”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #104;
• Jae Eon Yu, “Exploring Ethical Management From Systemic Perspectives”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions; and on the CDROM as paper #60; and
• Elena Beauchamp-Akatova, “Counter-Intuitive Managerial Interventions in Complex Systems”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #22.

In the second session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007, three papers are scheduled:

• K. C. Wang, “A Process View of SWOT Analysis”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PlDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #26;
• Michael G. Norton, “Japan’s Eco-towns - Industrial Clusters or Local Innovation Systems?”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions; and on the CDROM as paper #657; and
• Takafumi Nakamura and Kyoichi Kijima, “Systems of System Failures: Meta System Methodology to Prevent System Failures”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #684.

In the first session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007, three papers are scheduled:

• Pamela Buckle and G. Keith Henning, “Intervening in Counterproductive Self-Organized Dynamics in the Workplace”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings with an Abstract; and on the CDROM as paper #21;
• Hisanori Terasawa and Toshizumi Ohta, “A Model of Demand Chain Management with Virtual Interactions”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings with an Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #494;

In the third session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Sonoma 2006, four papers are scheduled:

• Pamela Buckle, “Obstacles to Consciousness in Corporations”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract, PDF, and HTML versions, and on the CDROM as paper #268;
• John Pourdehnad, Bruce Warren, Maureen Wright and John Mairano, “Unlearning/Learning Organizations – The Role of Mindset”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions; and on the CDROM as paper #326;
• Kambiz Maani and Anson Li, “Counter-Intuitive Managerial Interventions in Complex Systems”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #244; and

In the second session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Sonoma 2006, four papers are scheduled:

• Kumar Venkat and Wayne Wakeland, “Is Lean Necessarily Green?”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract, PDF, and HTML versions, and on the CDROM as paper #284;
• Reine Karlsson, Magnus Löf and Donald Huisingh, “Product design as a key to a business system perspective that promotes sustainable forestry”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract, PDF, and HTML versions; and on the CDROM as paper #347;

In the first session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Sonoma 2006, four papers are scheduled:

• Kuang-cheng Wang, “Corporate Change and Traditional Chinese Medicine”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings with an Abstract, PDF, and HTML versions; and on the CDROM as paper #321;
• Allenna Leonard, “Walking the Line: Making and Dissolving Distinctions with the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings with an Abstract, XHTML , and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #307;

As described on the program for ISSS Sonoma 2006, there will be three 120-minute sessions for the Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and Industry:

• Session 1 will be held on Monday, July 10, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., and
• Session 2 will be 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on the same afternoon.
• Session 3 will be held on Tuesday, July 11, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

These sessions are in Schulz 1121 , which is not with the other Salazar meeting rooms, but just inside the door of the library.

On Gary Metcalf’s invitiation, I attended the International Federation for Systems Research biannual event at Fuschl am See, Austria. I’ve written about some of features of isolation at Fuschl, but in terms of content, this meeting was different from the one I attended two years ago. Although some expectation of a different direction had been set by Gary prior to attending the meeting, the specific direction was somewhat ambiguous.

In Cancun last July, I was at an ISSS dinner hosting Jim Spohrer, whom the society was featuring as a plenary speaker. In a moment when the others (G. A. Swanson, Michael Jackson, Brian Hilton) were chatting with Jim about something else, I mentioned to Jennifer Wilby that she and I spend so much time working on ISSS administration issues that we actually never get around to discussing systems science. This morning, on a telephone call about my upcoming visit to the University of Hull, we actually got close to discussing real content!

The Systemic Business community had its origins on the afternoon of Thursday, July 20, 2000.

Four of us were attending the World Congress on Systems Science — Minna Takala, David Hawk, Ian Simmonds, and myself. We were sitting the cafeteria at Ryerson University, after four days of sessions. Compared to the prior ISSS meetings that we had attended — DLH and I were at 1998’s meeting, and all four of us were at the 1999 meeting — we were disappointed at the quality of the presentations. This meeting was considerably larger than prior events, combining the resources and memberships of many systems-oriented organizations as a millenium event. Larger size seemed to correlate with more ambiguous review criteria, and therefore some really bad talks.