3-Hour Virtual Sprint
THE BEST OF RUSSELL ACKOFF:PUTTING SYSTEMS THINKING TO WORK
with Dr. Russell Ackoff
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Overview
Dr. Ackoff will examine why we must change the way we think about organizational behavior and problems if we are to remain competitive. Participants will look at a new way to think about, manage and restructure their organizations so as to take advantage of the increasing rate of change and complexity in our environment. He will also consider how to encourage, facilitate and support organizational learning and adaptation under these conditions.
This workshop is composed of four interrelated topics. First, following Einstein, who said that our current pattern of thought cannot be used to solve the problems it creates, Dr. Ackoff will show that emergent systems thinking is a pattern of thought that can handle current management problems. He will then examine the changes that have occurred in the way we conceptualize enterprises, why these changes have occurred, and what they imply for the future. Third, he will consider three types of change required in order for organizations to thrive in the 21st century. Finally, he will consider why organizations fail to learn and adapt rapidly and effectively, and what can be done about it.
Topics Covered
The nature of systems and systems thinking
• The implications for management
The evolution of the concept “enterprise”
• What it implies for management
Some organizational changes required for “thrival”
• Democratization
• Internal markets
• Multidimensional structure
Organizational learning and adaptation
• Why organizations do not learn
• The content of learning - from data to wisdom
• Requirements for learning and adaptation
• A system that supports learning and adaptation
About Our Expert
DR. RUSSELL ACKOFF
In July 2000, the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania announced the creation of the Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches. Named for DR. RUSSELL ACKOFF, Emeritus Anheuser-Busch Professor at the Wharton School, the center operates as a think tank in the vanguard of systems approaches. As an architect, city planner, doctor of philosophy, behavioral scientist, trailblazer in the fields of organizational, operations, and systems theory, best-selling author, and head of his own management education and consulting firm, professor Ackoff qualifies, as do few others in this century, for the title of "Renaissance Man". Dr. Ackoff is a founding member and former Vice President of the Institute for Management Sciences, former president of the Society of General Systems Research, has received the Silver Medal of the Operations Research Society (UK) and the George E. Kimball Medal of the Operations Research Society of America. He has been elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Russian Federation, and has received honorary degrees from five universities. He has been a visiting professor at the Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis; the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Birmingham (UK). Dr. Ackoff has authored more than two hundred articles and twenty-two books, including Ackoff's Best. In Spring of 2005 his latest work, Beating the System: Using Creativity to Outsmart Bureaucracies, will be published by Berrett-Koehler.
Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Field of Study: Personal Development
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Field of Study: Personal Development
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