Systemic Business Community |
Only a few selected sessions have digested as highlight. For pre-conference information, please refer to ISSS Conference web site.
These digests are not an official transcript of the conference. They reflect only observations contributed by members of the Systemic Business Community and the ISSS. For more background on the ISSS 2003 conference, refer to the Conference Announcement at the ISSS conference site.
Time | Session | Speaker(s) | Topic |
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. |
Plenary: Von Bertalanffy Lecture Chair: Ken Bausch |
Markus Schwaninger |
What Can Cybernetics Contribute to the Conscious
Evolution of Organizations and Society? [click here for a digest by David Ing] |
Time | Session | Theme | Speakers and Papers |
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in
Business and Industry Chair: David Ing |
Roundtable on Directions for Organizations, Communities and Individuals | [ jump to this special section for the SABI SIG ] |
Roundtable on Systems Approaches, New Contexts | [ jump to this special section for the SABI SIG ] |
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Time | Session | Speakers and Papers |
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. |
Special Integration Group on Syntegration Chair: Markus Schwaninger [click here for a digest by David Ing] |
Angela Espinosa, "Team Syntegrity as a Tool to Promote
Democratic Agreements: An Example from the National
Environmental Sector in Colombia" Allenna Leonard, "Syntegration as a Means of Enhancing Requisite Variety for Exploring Risk" Asaf Zohar, "Syntegration and the Process of Emergent Order and Self-Organization: A Case Study" Jose Perez Rios, "A Self-Designing Network for the Systems Community" |
Time | Session | Theme | Dialogue |
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in
Business and Industry Chair: David Ing |
Roundtable on Organizational Forms and Evolutionary Paths | [ jump to this special section for the SABI SIG ] |
Roundtable on Inquiry and Practice | [ jump to this special section for the SABI SIG ] |
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Time | Session | Speakers and Papers |
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Special Integration Group on Organizational
Transformation and Social Change Chair: Maurice Yolles |
Paul Iles, "Knowledge Migration and the Transfer of HRM
Knowledge in Facilitating Change in International HRD
Alliances" [click here for a digest by David Ing] |
Asaf Zohar, "Making Sense of Organizational Change:
Allowing Order to Emerge from Paradoxical Change" [click here for a digest by David Ing] |
Time | Session | Speaker(s) | Topic |
9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
Plenary: Von Bertalanffy Lecture Chair: Markus Schwaninger |
Stuart Umpleby, Kenneth Bailey, Gianfranco Minati, Roger Packum, Markus Schwaninger (chair) |
In Memory of Past Presidents of ISSS [click here for a digest by David Ing] |
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. | Plenary: Vicker's Award - Student Presentation | Sabrina Brahms |
Systemic Narrative Inquiry (SNI) Method: Theory
Presentation and Application within the
Israeli-Palestinian [click here for the Acrobat document] |
Time | Session | Speakers and Papers |
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Special Integration Group on Organizational
Transformation and Social Change Chair: Maurice Yolles |
Maurice Yolles, "Political Cybernetics in Social
Communities" [click here for a digest by David Ing] |
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