PODFOLIO

🎧 Solving Complex Problems with Systems Thinking

What makes systems thinking superior to modern systems engineering? It starts with the constant feedback, which is needed more than ever in today’s digital world, but are engineers today embracing all that systems thinking has to offer?  In today’s episode, Thom Singer and Craig Brown are joined by Patrick Hillberg, author, speaker, and professor of engineering management at Oakland University called Product Lifecycle Management for a conversation about the importance of managing product lifecycles (rather than product lifecycle management) and the important ways that systems management c

🎧 Systems Thinking (Feat. Dr Alison Rodrias)

n the first of Season 4 of the BA Brew podcast, Systems Thinking comes under the spotlight. Topics covered by the Brew Crew and guest Dr Alison Rodrias include whether Systems Thinking can be learned; scenario and impact analysis; reductionist thinking; user stories and applying Systems Thinking within the BA role.

🎧 058. Alison Taylor: Leading With Values in Turbulent Times

We live in times in which circumstances change rapidly, decisions are rarely black and white, and it’s hard to know what is right, true, and most important. With our current political climate, polarization, and media culture, there are considerable risks involved in decision-making. How do we build a healthy organizational culture with an ethical compass in turbulent times.

🎧 Leadership and Systems Thinking: Clear Sight for Complex Decisions

Interview with Pat Kua, former engineering leader, current leadership coach about applying systems thinking to management. We start from the defintion systems thinking and discuss applying it to leadership with clear steps and concrete examples.

🎧 Lego Serious Play + Creating Together + Designing for Being with Jane Hession and Ronan Healy — DT101 E90

Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy are the founders of How Might We, a service design studio in Ireland. We talk about Lego Serious Play, creating together, and designing for being.   Listen to learn about: The importance of giving adults permission to be playful The LEGO Serious Play method  How LEGO Serious Play can unlock creativity and innovation The changing view of the workplace and how teams work post-COVID-19 Design for Being philosophy   Our Guests Dr.

🎧 Human-Centered Systems Thinking Online Course: Starts April 14

In our 5-week online course, Human-Centered Systems Thinking, you’ll: – Gain techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes of a problem. – Establish a shared view of the system and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. – Find the right problems to solve and pick the best solutions to experiment with. – Deepen your understanding of your organizational systems by taking an iterative approach to testing solutions and gaining insights. Learn more: ideou.com/systems

🎧 Expanding Your Marketing Process

As creator of Think.Design.Cyber. and the idea behind systems thinking feeding design thinking, Kale explores the need for and use cases around systems and design thinking in cybersecurity marketing. Kale discusses telling your systems marketing story in terms of what it provides and what outcome it creates and more.   

🎧 Darcy Winslow, Co-Founder, Magnolia Moonshot 2030 & Founding President, Academy for Systems Change (2010-2020), A DotCom Magazine Exclusive Interview

About Darcy Winslow, Magnolia Moonshot 2030 and Academy for Systems Change: Darcy Winslow Darcy Winslow is the Founding President (2010-2020) and co-founder of the Academy for Systems Change, an organization focused on advancing the field of awareness-based systemic change in order to achieve economic, social, and ecological wellbeing.

🎧 Phil Balagtas: The Future Of Futures Thinking

“It’s nice to have someone who is an expert in social behavior, right? Anthropologists, historians, scientists are great UX designers, are great UX researchers. There’s no real difference in futures thinking. I think one of the myths that we’re trying to dispel is that futures thinking is not this whole other or body of practice like service design isn’t a whole other body of practice.

🎧 Care Innovation in People, Process, and Technology with Molly K. McCarthy, National Director of US Health Provider and Plans at Microsoft

Technology is not the answer to everything, but it can certainly help us be more efficient. In this episode, we hear from Molly K. McCarthy, National Director of US Health Provider and Plans for Microsoft, about how new models of care that integrate technology and human resources can improve health systems.

🎧 Ep.541 – Stop Tying Yourself in Chains! Feat. Hal Macomber

Lean is a learning strategy mascarading as a production system. In this podcast we cover: Systems thinking The systems thinking archetypes If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you’ll never miss an episode.  And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I’d appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

🎧 Expanding Your Cybersecurity Marketing Process

In this episode of “Cybersecurity Unplugged,” Prachee Kale – a pioneer of CyberEd.io’s Think.Design.Cyber. – discusses the need for systems and design thinking in cybersecurity marketing, how to tell your marketing story, and how systems and design thinking can lead to creative solutions.

🎧 What is Systems Thinking?

In our latest podcast, coach Simon Gough explains what is Systems Thinking and how it makes Design Thinking projects more successful.Simon Gough is an experienced design consultant, facilitator, trainer, speaker and writer with clients ranging from fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies to central government. He also teaches our Systems Thinking three-day course. Listen to him explore Systems Thinking, how it can be used and why it is crucial for anyone interested in developing their Design Thinking skillset.

🎧 Baachu Talk Episode 27 – Benjamin Taylor (@antlerboy, Public Service Transformation Academy, Fellow of the Cybernetics Society)

Benjamin – found on social media as @antlerboy – has been in public service reform and organizational effectiveness for over 20 years, and is passionate about the systems | complexity | cybernetics field. He describes himself as business evolutionary and avid learner, all of which he traces back to science fiction, studying philosophy (with politics and economics at Oxford University), and being an outsider despite his privilege.

🎧 The Biggest Surprise at JPM 2022 Is What Wasn’t Being Discussed: COVID

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dan Michelson has held at least three to five zoom calls per day with hospital CFOs across the country. As the industry navigated the most disruptive and uncertain times in modern history, healthcare leaders turned to Dan for his insight and advice because of the unparalleled visibility he has into the market through his company, Strata Decision Technology.

🎧 Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell, “Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide” (Springer, 2020)

Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with appropriate tools and know-how for understanding such failure, and the making of systemic improvement. In our fragile Anthropocene world where ‘systems change’ is often invoked as the rallying call for purposeful alternative action, this book provides a toolkit to help constructively make systems that can change situations for the better.

🎧 242: Considering The Social Side of Tech with Trond Hjorteland

01:20 – The Superpower of Sociotechnical System (STS) Design: Considering the Social AND the Technical. The social side matters. Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity by Michael C. Jackson Open Systems Mechanical Animate Social Ecological On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events 09:14 – The Origins of Sociotechnical Systems Taylorism Trond Hjorteland: Sociotechnical Systems Design for the “Digital Coal Mines”* Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program 18:42 – Design From Abov

🎧 Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp, “Systems Thinkers” (Springer, 2020)

In this episode I spoke with Magnus Ramage, co-author of Systems Thinkers (Springer, 2020). This second edition provides an update to Ramage’s and co-author Karen Shipp’s earlier exploration, and presents an enlightening—often inspiring—biographical history of the field of systems thinking.

🎧 Wardley Mapping and Systems Thinking for Startup Founders | ft. Saurabh Kabra

Do you want to learn to visualize situations of strategic importance in order to create clarity, invite critique, and inspire action?  Well, Wardley Mapping is all about just that!  In practice, it’s all about developing strategic competence through situational awareness in order to secure asymmetric advantage.

🎧 #77 – Transformational Leadership: A Guide for the Soulful and Practical Leaders – Jardena London

“We want to create organizations that can surprise us and do things beyond what we’ve designed them to do, rather than a machine, which only operates in the box that you’ve designed.” Jardena London is a business transformation consultant and the author of “Cultivating Transformations”. In this episode, Jardena shared insights from her book on transformational leadership and how one can become a better leader.

🎧 Reinventing systems concerning the Future of Humanity | Richard David Hames, Founder, and ED, Centre for the Future

The term “futurist” most commonly refers to people who attempt to understand the future (sometimes called trend analysis) such as authors, consultants, thinkers, organizational leaders, and others who engage in interdisciplinary and systems thinking to advise private and public organizations. Today we have Richard Hames, Founder, and ED, Centre for the Future.

🎧 Ep. 49 – Fasting + Systems Thinking as a Coach with Coach Rob

Bringing back our weekly segment to the podcast of talking all things training with Coach Rob Jacobs (@robertcjacobs). This week we cover the ins and outs of fasting and how to use systems thinking as a coach Topics discussed: Implemeting 24-36 hour fasts The interplay between MTOR and AMPK The benefits of fasting and how to start to use it with clients How to think critically as a coach Why carbs at night does not just raise seratonin And more Resources Follow Rob  – @robertcjacobs Follow Zach @zachmobius Coach More Clients – duxata.

🎧 Episode 65: System Re-setting – Alana Marsh with Morag Gamble

In this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I am delighted to be in conversation with Alana Marsh – Systems Resetter, Wayappa Wurrk Practitioner and Aboriginal Systems thinker. Alana is aligning systems of knowing, being and doing from a place of abundance, health, gratitude and joy, and is creating an alive Aboriginal hub in inner east Melbourne.

🎧 APIs Unplugged – S3 E2 – APIs, Complexity, and Systems Thinking with Matthew Reinbold

In this episode, global API community leader and writer Matthew Reinbold joins to share his experience on using APIs to deal with complexity, as well as the attributes of high performing API organizations. Check out Matthew’s Net API Notes newsletter here:

🎧 TV101: The Standards and Systems Your Food Blog Needs with Jillian Dolberry

As your food blog grows and you begin to scale, it is so important to set aside time to document your systems and processes. Whether you have never spent a lot of time thinking about systems or you aren’t sure what an SOP even stands for, you’re in the right place. I’m joined by my Online Business Manager who is going to break this all down for us and help you make a plan for the standards and systems your food blog needs.

🎧 Engineering the Future of Mobility

From cars to planes, the future of transportation is already here—and is changing rapidly. Software engineering is increasingly central to both the development and maintenance of all kinds of vehicles. That means more people need to start thinking like systems engineers. Dale Tutt, vice president of aerospace and defense industry for Siemens Software, says this means companies must offer more training and planning for those designing and developing vehicles of the future.

🎧 #23: Systems Thinking – An Intro for Climate Action in Cities

An introduction to the concept of Systems Thinking and how it is essential for understanding and taking action on climate change.  This episode is inspired by the book Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. It covers: What is Systems Thinking?How to get started thinking in systemsSystem structure – stocks, flows and loopsLeverage points for changing systemsFollow the Green Urbanist:

🎧 Exploring design systems for services / Dan Mall / Episode #116

Have you heard about design systems? It’s a catchy concept that’s been getting quite some attention lately from our friends at the digital UX community. And I think we as a service design community can get a lot of value out of it as well! Here’s my simple understanding of a design system… The main idea is that a design system provides you with a standardised set of components and patterns.

🎧 BONUS: What if? So What? Hosts Ask Alan His Own Questions

We have two special treats in the RSS feed for loyal marketing listeners – a What if? So What? podcast drop with Alan as a guest and a Bonus episode with the hosts of What if? So What?, Kim Williams-Czopek and Jim Hertzfeld, asking Alan his own questions he asks all his guests. For this bonus episode, Alan thought it would be fun to turn the tables.

🎧 Ep.87 What exactly is Systems Thinking?

In today’s episode, we discuss another in our series of foundational papers: “Applying Systems Thinking to Analyze and Learn from Events” published in a 2011 volume of Safety Science by Nancy Leveson.  Leveson is a renowned Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and also a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Professor Leveson conducts research on the topics of system safety, software safety, software and system engineering, and human-computer interaction.

🎧 Dr. Willy Donaldson – Simple Complexity

Dr. William (Willy) Donaldson is a Professor of Management at the Joseph W. Luter, III School of Business at Christopher Newport University. Willy has over 30 years of experience as a board member and president and has been CEO of eight companies including a publicly-traded company and an international joint-venture.

🎧 015: Supercharge your strategic thinking (Strategy Toolkit 4)

Strategic thinking is essential for navigating the fast-changing world we live in. In this episode, I look at ways you can supercharge your strategic thinking skills, and make yourself invaluable to your organisation. It is possible to define five key ways of thinking about a problem. Combine these, and you have a more strategic approach.

🎧 202: Systems Thinking Applied To Mindsets – Tessa Clarke, CEO of OLIO

Tessa Clarke Tessa is a startup founder who thrives in challenging environments, and has a strong track record of driving change. She grew up on a farm and knows how much hard work goes into producing the food we all eat, and absolutely ‘hates’ throwing it away. When she was moving country and the removal men said she has to bin their food, she couldn’t do it and it was when the OLIO app was born.

🎧 Tyson Yunkaporta, “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” (HarperOne, 2021)

Although it is not described as such anywhere in the book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2021) is indeed a systems-thinking book—one that offers a much-needed fresh perspective. Tyson Yunkaporta stands on the shoulders of who we should consider the original systems thinkers: Indigenous elders—the keepers & teachers of ancient knowledge—to show us that by “emphasizing community and connection over individualism and fragmentation—and by cultivating respect for the land—we can address the urgent challenges we face”.

🎧 Be a Systems Thinker: From Chronically Chaotic to Rhythms of Rest with Marilyn Paul Ph.D

In this episode you’re going to learn how to turn 7 days a week into 8. First, our thought leader of the day is Marilyn Paul, a true ‘systems’ thinker. From projects for WHO to others like cutting down on waste, Marilyn applies her world-class way of finding and applying solutions. She has been on the faculty of Yale Medical School, appeared on Discovery, and is the author of, It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys, one of my favorite titles ever.

🎧 Summer Series: Systems Thinking in Smart Communities, with Zaheer Allam

Hi #smartcommunity friends! Welcome back to the Summer Series here on the Smart Community Podcast. As you know, we’re taking a little break from new content over the Australian summer holidays, and instead we are sharing the replays of a few of our all time favourite episodes. This week we’re sharing my interview with Zaheer Allam, from way back in episode 180, which was released in July of 2020.

🎧 Systems Thinking with Ross Arnold [Outside Perspective]

In this outside perspective, we dive into what systems thinking is and how crucial it is to navigate the complexity of our modern world. As senior research engineer for the Department of Defense, Ross Arnold, brings a highly informed perspective to this discussion. As the complexity of interconnected systems in our globalized world increases, so too does the need for those in positions of leadership to have a grasp on systems thinking. This introduction to systems thinking is a must-watch for those involved in decision-making!

🎧 Dr. Mira Brancu’s Long Email About an Ethics Situation Was Not Well Received

CEO of Brancu Associates Episode page and links: My guest for Episode #145 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Dr. Mira Brancu. She is the Founder & CEO of Brancu Associates and is a Consulting Psychologist, Speaker, and Author. Dr. Brancu helps leaders expertly navigate complexity in the workplace and help organizations make it easier for leaders to navigate.

🎧 Episode 85 – Bringing AI into Healthcare Delivery with Ron Li, MD, Stanford University

Some of you that are old enough will remember when doctors, clinics and hospitals were complaining about implementing electronic medical records which we now call EMR.  EMR then advanced and became Electronic Health records or EHR.  EHR is actually more powerful than EMR.  EHR is the term most of us use today.

🎧 S20E14 – Systems Thinking: Working Effectively in a Collaborative Environment

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover ( shares his keynote with the Lendlease LLevel UP program, out of Singapore, titled: “Systems Thinking: Working Effectively in a Collaborative Environment.” Session Overview: A key characteristic of a future that is VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) is the interconnectedness and complexity of the problems we need to solve.

🎧 Applying Critical, Systems and Design Thinking to Security

Brian Barnier, a director of analytics who is developing a course on critical and design thinking in cybersecurity for CyberEd.io, is a firm believer in the importance of critical thinking today. He discusses how that, plus systems and design thinking, can improve the way cybersecurity functions.

🎧 Dual Process Theory on Customer Journey Optimization

During the last few episodes, we have been hanging out in a series on the customer journey and doing a deep dive into what they are, why they are important and how to optimize customer journeys through behavioral economics. In this episode, we will discuss dual process theory and several ways to apply it to customer journey optimization.

🎧 John Dues on Continual Improvement, Deming, and Process Behavior Charts in Education

Episode page: My guest for Episode #441 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is John Dues, an accomplished education systems leader and improvement science scholar-practitioner with more than two decades of experience in the sector.  He is the Chief Learning Officer of the United Schools Network (USN) where he directs the network’s Continual Improvement Fellowship and serves as an improvement advisor.

🎧 A Conversation with Marita Fridjhon on the 4th of October  2019

Introduction: Marita Fridjhon is the  CEO of CRR Global Incorporated. She has 25 years’ experience as a therapist, mediator, OD consultant and executive coach working across the globe. Maria is best known for her work as a Relationship Systems Intelligence advocate. She is passionate about modern systems thinking and working with the relations and information available at the systems level.