Posts Tagged ‘ value networks ’

Creating Schools of the Future through Systems Thinking

1/14/2006

Upcoming Urban Leadership Academy workshop in Minneapolis: Creating Schools of the Future through Systems ThinkingFebruary 1, 2006 Verna Allee, Verna Allee and Associates Verna Allee, M.A., is recognized worldwide for her work as a pioneer in the field of knowledge management. She is a practitioner, thought leader, author, and frequent keynote speaker on value networks, [...]


The future of knowledge: increasing prosperity through value networks

11/29/2004

Allee, V. (2003). The future of knowledge: increasing prosperity through value networks. Amsterdam ; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann. Allee provides a collection of frameworks and ideas to help organizational leaders navigate through the challenges in a knowledge-based society. Her value network approach identifies key and exploitable relationships within complex, dynamic, organizational systems. These ideas are compatible with [...]


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Creating Schools of the Future through Systems Thinking

Upcoming Urban Leadership Academy workshop in Minneapolis: Creating Schools of the Future through Systems ThinkingFebruary 1, 2006 Verna Allee, Verna Allee and Associates Verna Allee, M.A., is recognized worldwide for her work as a pioneer in the field of knowledge management. She is a practitioner, thought leader, author, and frequent keynote speaker on value networks, [...]


Sixth sense: accelerating organizational learning with scenarios

Van der Heijden, K. A. (2002). Sixth sense: accelerating organizational learning with scenarios. Chichester ; New York: Wiley. Van der Heijden builds upon the ideas in Scenarios and delves into more modern approaches to scenario planning. He argues, scenario-based continuous learning is the best approach for organizations to identify and plan for external environmental inputs [...]


Creating better futures: scenario planning as a tool for a better tomorrow

Ogilvy, J. A. (2002). Creating better futures: scenario planning as a tool for a better tomorrow. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Ogilvy writes that the future is neither predictable nor constructed of endless possibilities. We can create better futures by thinking ahead and planning with scenarios. In a chapter on using scenarios for educational [...]


Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation

Van der Heijden, K. (1996). Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation. Chichester, England New York: John Wiley & Sons. Van der Heijden argues organizations need to face up to uncertain possible futures. In this book, he argues leaders need to develop organizational processes that foster success. Organizations are characterized as feedback-looped, complex adaptive systems, driven [...]


The fifth discipline

Senge, P. M. (1994). The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization (1st ed.). New York: Doubleday/Currency. Senge argues traditional organizational leaders need to “revolutionize” their management philosophy toward the highly conceptual approach of systems thinking as the basis for building learning organizations. He adds this “fifth discipline” to four others: building [...]


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