The world is becoming increasingly inter-related, complex and fast-changing and yet many organisations continue to use traditional methods for strategy development, organisation change and leadership – even when they have questionable success. Why is this? What has to happen for strategists and policy makers to give up on behaving as if the world is predictable, [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Strategy in a complex world – 5th meeting in the emergent series on aid and complexity
Posted in Strategy on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Knowledges, Capacities and Learning for Development: Insights from Complexity approaches (4th meeting in the emergent series)
Posted in Knowledge and learning, Meetings on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 4th in the emerging series on aid and complexity took place at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex on 3rd October 2008. Pete Cranston blogged about it shortly thereafter – here is an extract from his thoughts. “I was at an IDS seminar last Friday – “Knowledges, Capacities and Learning for Development: Insights from Complexity approaches”. If the title is [...]
Exploring the science of complexity in aid policy and practice
Posted in Meetings, Public Policy on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The aim of this July 2008 seminar was to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss the key ideas of complexity thinking and the relevance they have for those working in the international aid sector. It was also hoped that concrete and practical ways to take this area of work forward, both collectively and within [...]
International Conference on Evaluating the Complex – 2nd in emergent series on complexity and aid
Posted in Evaluation, Meetings on September 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) organized an international conference on ‘Evaluating the Complex’ from 29-30 May 2008 in Oslo, Norway. Speakers included Howard White (International Initiative on Impact Evaluation); Patricia Rogers (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology); Michael Q. Patton (Director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and Former President of the American Evaluation Association), among others. [...]
Navigating Complexity – An Innovation Dialogue
Posted in Meetings, Reports and Studies on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
May 2008 saw the first in an emergent series of meetings exploring the implications of complexity for development. “What does complexity thinking mean for development interventions? This innovation dialogue offers a unique opportunity for exploring how emerging insights from the complexity sciences and systems thinking, combined with field practice, could reshape assumptions about the design, [...]
