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Constructing POSIWID

April 21, 2022April 20, 2022 by Richard Veryard

I’ve just been reading Harish Jose’s latest post A Constructivist’s View of POSIWID. POSIWID stands for the maxim (THE) Purpose Of (A) System Is What It Does, which was coined by Stafford Beer.Harish points out that there are many different systems wit…

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Constructing POSIWID

April 21, 2022April 20, 2022 by Richard Veryard

I’ve just been reading Harish Jose’s latest post A Constructivist’s View of POSIWID. POSIWID stands for the maxim (THE) Purpose Of (A) System Is What It Does, which was coined by Stafford Beer.Harish points out that there are many different systems wit…

Categories #eavoices, Cybernetics, leveragepoints, POSIWID Tags #eavoices

Is there an epistemology of systems?

April 20, 2022October 9, 2021 by Richard Veryard

@camerontw is critical of a system diagram published (as an illustrative example) by @geoffmulgan in 2013.Is there an epistemology of systems? I zoomed into this map randomly and saw ‘high drug use’ above ‘lack of youth activities’ but not connected. H…

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Is there an epistemology of systems?

April 20, 2022October 9, 2021 by Richard Veryard

@camerontw is critical of a system diagram published (as an illustrative example) by @geoffmulgan in 2013.Is there an epistemology of systems? I zoomed into this map randomly and saw ‘high drug use’ above ‘lack of youth activities’ but not connected. H…

Categories #eavoices, leveragepoints, systemsthinking Tags #eavoices

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