| The
Programme runs seminars (for
the business and academic community), study
groups (for academics and Research Partners), complexity
days (with a mixture of organisations and in-house), workshops
and conferences (for the whole complexity community of
interest), as well as Consortium
meetings especially designed for the Research Partners.
Those working on
different aspects of the Research Programme, make up the LSE
Complexity Group. The Group includes the researchers involved in
the individual projects as well as several associate researchers, a
modelling expert, an artist, psychologists, and academics from different
disciplines. Professor John Casti (SFI) and Roger Lewin (author of ‘Complexity’)
are also associate members of the Group. Associated with the Group is a
Network of academics within a variety of disciplines (including:
anthropology, biology, economics, information systems, mathematics,
physics, psychology, sociology, philosophy) from the following
Universities: Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow, Hertfordshire, Lancaster,
Lincoln, OU, Sheffield, Warwick. The LSE Group also has strong links
with the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, which is the centre for complex
adaptive systems research in the natural sciences, and a number of
universities and research institutions world-wide.
One of the objectives of
the LSE Complexity Programme is to help create a community of interest
and a community of researchers in the UK, studying complex social
systems at different scales: at the individual, organisational,
economic, and societal levels. The series of Study Group meetings,
conferences, colloquia, etc over the past few years have helped create
this community and future efforts will ensure that the community is
maintained and further developed.
The Research Partners,
are therefore indirectly also helping to create and support this
community which will develop the new discipline of the study of complex
social systems.
More specifically, the LSE Research Programme is attempting to:
i) Contribute to the
development of a theory of complex social systems and organisations.
ii) Explore and develop models, tools and methods to help organisations
understand and cope with complexity.
iii) Develop a method of discourse of complexity, within an
organisational context.
COMPLEXITY PROVIDES AN
EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK AND A LANGUAGE, WHICH OFFER A DIFFERENT WAY OF
THINKING AND SEEING THE WORLD.
The Research Partners
take an active role in the research projects and help fund the Research
Programme. The current membership fee is £15,000 p.a. (plus 40%
overhead) and Research Partners are expected to support the Programme
for a minimum of three years, with an annual review. The longer-term
relationship ensures that the RP derives maximum benefit from the
relationship and the Group is provided with the necessary financial
support to continue its work.
Past
Events
Year
2006
June15th,
Organizations as Learning Systems Prof. Marjatta Maula, Tampere
University of Technology, Finland.
"Getting Value From
IT. Can Complexity Help?" Dr
Paul Stevens, HR VP, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
May 26th,
New Product Development as a Complex Adaptive System of Decisions
with Dr. Ian McCarthy, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Is there anything to fear
from the politics of complexity? with Prof. Robert Geyer, Lancaster
University, UK (PP
presentation)
Year 2005
January 12th, Dialogue on Complexity & Design’ , led by Eve Mitleton-Kelly and held at UCL, London. Part of the 'Embracing Complexity in Design' Cluster programme, funded by the EPSRC and AHRC and co-sponsored by Exystence, the European Network of Excellence in Complex Systems
Year
2004
November
12th,
Helsinki,
Finland Complexity in Business. Complexity Research Meets Futures Studies
June 29th
"Is
Hierarchy Unnecessary? If So, What Are The Alternatives?" with
Gerard Fairtlough
June 4th
"The Application of Complexity" Rolls-Royce Marine,
Modernisation Agency, NHS, Complexity Group, LSE
Year
2003
OCTOBER
29th at Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain "Complexity
Science as an Enabler of Intra and Inter Organizational Network
Development" with
Prof. Richard V. Sole, Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Peter Fryer
MAY 21st
2003 "Redirection" with
Professor David Lane
and Enzo
Badalotti
MARCH 26th
2003
"The Physics of Institutions" with Dr Philip
Ball and Paul Ormerod
and PP
presentation
FEBRUARY
25th 2003
"Harnessing Business Complexity through Agent-based
Modelling"
with Dr Eric Bonabeau from Icosystem Corporation, Boston (PP
presentation)
JANUARY
31st 2003
"Predicting the Future" with Dr Bernardo A
Huberman from HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
(PP
presentation)
Year
2002
NOVEMBER
18th 2002 "Visualizability
in the New Economy: Some Challengers in the Representation of Complex Organizations",
with Professor Arthur Miller and
Professor Max Boisot
JUNE 18th 2002
"Managing
Networkorganisations: A practitioners view" with Herman Roose, CEO
of Oranje Belgium
APRIL
29th 2002
"Measuring Complex Systems" with Gerry Frizelle and
Janet Efstathiou
Year 2001
JUNE 8th
2001 "Complexity
Science and Order-Creation" with Professor Bill McKelvey
MAY 30th 2001
"Cognition and Robotics" with Professor Igor
Alksander and Inman Harvey
MARCH 19th
2001"Clustering and Swarming as
self-organising techniques in
virtual communities" with David Snowden and Yasmin Merali
MARCH 9th 2001"Knowledge Management in Action - How BP is
"learning to fly"... with Chris Collison and Geoff
Parcell
FEBRUARY 8th 2001"Complexity and Industrial Networks: New
Organisational Forms and New Managerial Approaches" with Pierpaolo
Andriani and Giuseppina Passiante.
Year 2000
MARCH 14th 2000 "Strategy,
Microcoevolution, Distributed
Intelligence, and Prigogine" Professor Bill McKelvey, UCLA, Los
Angeles
Year 1999
OCTOBER 28th 1999 "Complexity and Business Success" with Roger
Lewin and Birute Regine
JUNE 10th 1999 "Science and Magic" Dr Jack Cohen
MAY 4th 1999 "Biological and Economic Network" Dr Eric
Bonabeau, SFI, discussed the problem solving characteristics of social
insects
MARCH 4th 1999 "Herding Behaviour in Financial Market" Dr
Gérard Weisbuch (physicist), Laboratoire de Physique Statistique ENS,
Paris and Dr Alan Kirman (economist) discussed self-organising markets,
how interactions evolve leading to complexity, contagion effects,
'epidemics' of opinion and herding behaviour in financial markets.
FEBRUARY 23rd 1999 "Conditioned Emergence - Complexity theory in
action" Dr Robert MacIntosh and Dr Donald MacLean, Glasgow
University and Ian Arbon, MD of Peter Brotherhood Ltd, Peterborough,
discussed the implementation of the theories of complexity in practice,
within PB Ltd.
JANUARY 18th 1999 "Expanding the Potentialities of Knowledge-Based
Organisations" Professor Raul Espejo, Professor of Information
Management and Director of the Centre for Systems Research at the
Lincoln School of Management, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
Year 1998
NOVEMBER 11th 1998 "The Complexity Advantage" Susanne Kelly,
Citibank, New York Christopher Davis, BDA, Germany.
OCTOBER 12th 1998 "How to Make Real Change Happen" Goran
Carstedt, M.D. SOL International, and ex-President Volvo and IKEA
MAY 15th 1998 "Would-Be Worlds, The Science and the Surprise of
Artificial Worlds" Professor John Casti, Santa Fe Institute
MARCH 30th 1998 "Sim Store: Complex Adaptive Modelling at J
Sainsbury" Dr Mark Venables, J Sainsbury.
JANUARY 15th 1998 "Organising to Learn" John Leggate, BP
"Learning to Unlearn" Professor Petruska Clarkson,
Psychologist
Year 1997
DECEMBER 17th 1997 "The Complexity of Power Relations- an
interdisciplinary approach to complex systems thinking" Dr Kim
James, Psi International
DECEMBER 3rd 1997 "Developing Knowledge through Dialogue- The
Sencorp Management Model" Kenneth R. Slocum, Senior Vice President,
SENCORP. D. Scott Frondorf, Manager of Strategic Systems and
Technologies, SENCORP.
NOVEMBER 19th 1997 "Strategy & Requisite Variety"
Professor Raul Espejo, Professor of Information Management, University
of Lincolnshire and Humberside, and Director of the Centre for Systems
Research, Lincoln School of Management.
APRIL 23rd 1997 "Complexity and the Participatory Worldview"
Professor Brian Goodwin, biologist and author of "How the Leopard
Changed Its Spots". Dr Peter Reason, author of "Participation
in Human Inquiry".
MARCH 5th 1997 "Eight Principles of the New Science Applied to
Leadership" Andrew Stone, Joint MD, Marks & Spencer Danah Zohar,
Oxford Brookes University.
FEBRUARY 13th 1997 "Complexity, Metaphor and Knowledge Landscapes
in Organisations" Professor Johan Roos, International Institute for
Management Development, Lausanne. Michael Lissack, Senior Advisor to
Tripod Inc and Research Associate at Henley Management College.
Year 1996
NOVEMBER 20th 1996 "Learning from Complexity: Expanding the
Possibility Space" Arthur Battram, Tools for Learning project
Manager in the Training Development team at the Local Government
Management Board, the Industry Training organisation for local
authorities. Steve Trivett, Senior Consultant with FCI, Birmingham City
Council.
OCTOBER 30th 1996 "Complexity in Practice at the DOT and Humberside
TEC" Paul Waller, Head of the Information and Technology Management
Unit at the Department of Transport. Graham Hodgson, DOT Peter Fryer,
Chief Executive of Humberside Training and Enterprise Council.
JUNE 5th 1996 "Strategy & Complexity in the Public Sector"
Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, Head of the Department of Operational
Research at LSE. Professor Hari Tsoukas, Associate Professor of
Organisation and Management at the University of Cyprus and an Associate
Fellow at Warwick Business School and Cranfield School of Management.
MAY 8th 1996 "Is Learning a Prerequisite for Adaptation in Complex
Social Systems?" Arie de Geus, ex-Group planning Co-ordinator of
the Royal Dutch Shell Group Professor Peter Allen, physicist,
International Ecotechnology Research Centre, Cranfield University.
APRIL 24th & FEBRUARY 7th 1996 "Control & Self-Organisation:
Paradoxes of Leadership in Complex Organisations" Professor Ralph
Stacey Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the
University of Hertfordshire Patricia Shaw, Associate Director and
Founding Fellow of CMC.
MARCH 6th 1996 "Institutionalising Complexity: The Chinese
Development Experience" Professor John Child, Judge Institute,
Cambridge Professor Max Boisot, E.S.A.D.E., Barcelona
Year 1995
MAY 10th 1995 "Organisations As Community: Complexity and
Relationships at Work" Arie de Geus, ex-Group planning Co-ordinator
of the Royal Dutch Shell Group Michael McMaster , Director of Knowledge
Based Development Ltd.
MARCH 16th 1995 "Business Innovation and Information Technology:
Dangerous Liaisons?" Professor Robert Galliers, Chairman and Lucas
Professor of Business Systems Engineering, Warwick University Business
School David Orchard, Head of Group Information Technology at Thomas
Cook
FEBRUARY 10th 1995 "Can Information Systems Investment be
Appraised?" Professor John Ward, Professor of Strategic IS and
Director, IS Research Centre, Cranfield Roger Davies, senior consultant
with Admiral Management Services
JANUARY 25th 1995 "Managing Complexity" Dr Michael Thompson,
anthropologist Alex Trisoglio, Director, Environmental Strategies
Symposiums
Year
2005
May 5-6th,
Torino, Italy. Complexity Symposium. "Art, Complexity and
Technology: Their Interaction in Emergence"
Year
2004
March
25-26 Complexity Symposium, Complexity Science and 21st Century
Issues, Co-sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute, the European
Commission and the London School of Economics
Year 2002
FEBRUARY
20th COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "Dissipative
structures and far from equilibrium systems" with Professor Peter
Allen
Year 2001
APRIL 25th 2001 "Is Social Evolution
Lamarckian or Darwinian?" with Professor Geoff Hodgson
Year 2000
MAY 31st 2000 "On Evolution"
MARCH 14th 2000 "Dynamics of New Science
Leadership" with Bill McKelvey,UCLA, Los Angeles
FEBRUARY 22nd 2000 " Biological Evolution as
a model for Social Systems" Professor Brian Goodwin
Year 1998
FEBRUARY 3rd 1998 "On the issue of
scale" Professor Marilyn Strathern, Social Anthropologist,
Cambridge University
JANUARY 23rd 1998 " Complexity, Information
Space and Social Information Flows" Professor Max Boisot Michael
Lissack
Year 1997
JUNE 18th 1997
"The Law as an Autopoietic
System" Professor Gunther Teubner, Otto-Kahn-Freund Professor of
Comparative Law and Legal Theory at the LSE "Autopoeisis and
Organised Complexity" Professor Helmut Willke, Universitat
Bielefeld
Year 1996
MAY 20th 1996 "The Learning Network":
Conditions for Distinguishing Productive Self-Organising Systems From
Permanently Failing Organisations Tony Bovaird, Lecturer and Founder
member of the Public Sector Management Research Centre, Aston Business
School "Chaos, Complexity and the Firm: A Generic Model of
Interfirm Relationships" David Parker, Senior Lecturer in
Managerial Economics and Director of the Research Centre for Industrial
Strategy, University of Birmingham Business School. Andrew Tobias,
Senior Lecturer in Operational Research, University of Birmingham. Simon
Whitby, Doctoral Student, University of Birmingham.
Year 2000
JUNE 8th 2000 "Enabling the Emergence of New
Organisational Forms"
Year 2005
November
28th, Business
Use of Complexity Sciences,
at Grenoble, France
October
7th, Art, Complexity and
Design Workshop, at UCL
July
20th, Workshop
on Community & Urban Renewal & Complexity Theory
June 27th,
Complexity Workshop "A Celebration of Cultural Theory"
March 8th,
Workshop on Community & Urban Renewal
Year 2003
MAY 21st 2003
EXYSTENCE COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP
Year 2002
MARCH 7th 2002
COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP "A 2-day Workshop on Complexity: Introduction
and Advanced" by the LSE Complexity Group
Year 2001
NOVEMBER 22nd
2001 COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP
"An Introduction to
Complexity" Complexity Group
JUNE 8th 2001 "Complexity Science and Order-Creation"
with Professor Bill McKelvey
Year 1998
OCTOBER 8th 1998
"The Complexity Game" Co-creators:
Gerard Fairtlough, Julie Allan, Eve Mitleton-Kelly
JUNE 8th and 9th Joint WORKSHOP with EIASM* on "Complexity
and Organization", Brussels, Belgium Selected papers were
presented at the December Conference. *European Institute for Advanced
Studies in Management
Year 1995
NOVEMBER 17th and DECEMBER 6th 1995 "Managing
Complexity" Alex Trisoglio, Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen
International Management Institute.
FEBRUARY 16th & JANUARY 19th 1995 "Managing the
Change" Rohit Talwar, Strategic Planning Society.
Year 2006
February
28th
The Application of Complexity Science to Human Affairs
Open University Campus, Milton Keynes
Year 2003
SEPTEMBER
17th and 18th 2003
Complexity, Ethics
and Creativity Conference
Year 1998
DECEMBER 4th and 5th 1998 Joint CONFERENCE with Warwick, "ORGANISATIONS
AS COMPLEX EVOLVING SYSTEMS" Keynote Speakers: Professor Ervin
Laszlo, Dr. Jack Cohen, Susanne Kelly, Vice President, Citicorp Technology
Office Citybank, New York. Papers were presented by academics and
practitioners.
Year 1998
MAY 11th & 12th 1998 "A Colloquium on Autopoiesis
and Social Systems" Professor Humberto Maturana, University of
Chile Professor Gunther Teubner, LSE Dr Loet Leydesdorff, University of
Amsterdam Dr John Mingers, Warwick University Dr Lucas Introna, LSE Dr
Soren Brier, Denmark
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