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Virtual Book Launch – The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking



The launch of the publication of “The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governing in a Climate Emergency” was broadcast live on April 16th 2020. Invited panel members from several industries who had input in this publication shared their views on a variety of topics.

Our thesis is that it is only through new systems of governance and new ways of thinking and acting that the human world can manage the climate and associated emergencies. It may be that the Covid-19 has knocked some sense into the those maintaining the current world order sufficient to grasp that the systems we have are but the systems we have, all are human inventions, and all can be reinvented. We explore how and why contemporary governance is failing, New elements in a governance system are needed: the biosphere, social purpose and the Technosphere. Failures of governance go beyond damaging our habitat to damaging inequalities in power, wealth and well-being. Preferential lobbying thrives. Ramshackle political processes are no match for these challenges.

Book is available:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Hidden-Power-of-Systems-Thinking-Governance-in-a-Climate-Emergency/Ison-Straw/p/book/9781138493995

Book Launch Invited Speakers

Professor Ray Ison:
Professor of Systems at the UK Open University (OU). As part of ASTiP (Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group) he is responsible with colleagues for managing a post-graduate program in Systems Thinking in Practice. His research field is systems praxeology, institutional innovation and systemic governance.

Ed Straw:
A visiting fellow at the OU’s ASTiP group. He has seen government from every angle: as a citizen and consumer, adviser to several government ministers, Chair of Demos and Relate and as a specialist on government task forces. He was a consultant on both the Conservative and Labour government’s public sector reforms, and a ‘moderniser’ for the UK Labour party. Much of his work is action research, involving policy-makers, stakeholders and practitioners in many different governance contexts and scales from catchments to national and international policy and practice.

Professor John Naughton:
Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, Director of the Press Fellowship Programme at Wolfson College and the technology columnist of The Observer. By background a systems engineer, he is an historian of the Internet whose main research interests lie in the network’s impact on society. He has written extensively on technology and its role in society, and is the author of a well-known history of the Internet – A Brief History of the Future (Phoenix, 2000).

Professor Eileen Munro:
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. A background in both philosophy and social work has shaped her research interests in reasoning skills in child protection, leading to an interest in how organisational cultures help or hinder good quality reasoning and practice. Understanding of the complex causal processes in working with families has triggered a critical interest in the philosophy of social science underlying the evidence-based policy and practice movements.

Dr Julian Corner:
An OU STiP alumnus who is currently CEO of the Foundation Lankelly Chase where he is using STiP to transform the way his organisation runs and engages with issues of severe and multiple disadvantage. When asked what attracted him to working at Lankelly Chase he replied: I first realised how poorly we respond to complex social problems at the Social Exclusion Unit where I led its report on reoffending by ex-prisoners. For me Lankelly Chase is an opportunity to support a growing movement of people who are grasping the opportunity of difficult times to imagine a very different system and to act boldly to achieve it.

Dr Piret Tõnurist:
Currently works at the Directorate for Public Governance, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a lead in systems thinking and innovation measurement in the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI). She also holds a research fellowship at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance (TalTech). Piret does research in Organizational Studies, Public Sector Innovation, Technology Governance, Digitalisation and decision-making under uncertainty.

Professor Gerald Midgely:
Professor of Systems Thinking in the Business School at the University of Hull. He also holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of Queensland, Australia; Mälardalen University, Sweden; the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Gerald was Director of the Centre for Systems Studies at Hull from 1997 to 2003 and from 2010 to 2014. He has had more than 300 papers published on systems thinking, action research and stakeholder engagement, and has been involved in a wide variety of public sector, community development and resource management projects.

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