Systemic Business Community

Digests of Highlights from ISSS 2003
47th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the System Sciences at Hersonissos, Crete, July 7-11, 2003.

[Monday, July 7] | [Tuesday, July 8] | [Wedneday, July 9] | [Thursday, July 10] | [Friday, July 11]

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.

Monday, July 7

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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Tuesday, July 8

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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Wednesday, July 9

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]

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Thursday, July 10

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
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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
Maurice Yolles, "Political Cybernetics in Social Communities"
[click here for a digest by David Ing]

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Friday, July 11

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