[Kb-complexity] News and short pieces from you...

Carol Webb <carolwebb75@yahoo.com> · Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:14:55 -0700 (PDT)

Hi All

Just got this email from Kurt Richardson (see below)
and thought I would share. Hope you are all getting
back into the swing of work after the summer. 

I am now looking for volunteers to write short thought
pieces based on your own domains and how complexity
science relates to it and the questions this raises
for understanding, knowledge, and application. I will
be contacting some of you shortly about it but in the
meantime please feel free to email me or post to the
KB CSO SIG.

Best wishes, Carol

From: Dr Kurt A Richardson [mailto:kurt@isce.edu] 
Sent: 12 September 2006 17:41
To: Webb, Carol
Subject: Complexity publications update

Dear Colleague

I am writing to you today to let you know of ISCE
Publishing's latest complexity titles. These include:

1. New complexity book: Systems Thinking & Complexity
Science: Insights for Action;
2. New issue of Emergence: Complexity & Organization, 
3. Reduced rates for the journal Systems Research and
Behavioral Science, and;
4. Past E:CO Annuals now available in hardback.

Further details follow:

1. New complexity book: Systems Thinking & Complexity
Science: Insights for Action: The editorial for the
book reads:

"Following the success of the previous ANZSYS
conferences and "Managing the Complex" events, it was
a pleasure to announce the 11th Annual ANZSYS/Managing
the Complex V Conference. The conference was held in
the city of Christchurch in New Zealand from 5-7
December 2005, and was co-hosted by the Institute of
Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), New
Zealand, and the Institute for the study of Coherence
and Emergence (ISCE), USA.

A lively forum for discussion and debate was provided
for a wide range of academics and practitioners in the
fields of systems thinking, complexity science and
management. People from other disciplines who have an
interest in the application of systems thinking and
complexity approaches were also invited to
participate. We brought together thinkers and
practitioners in the fields of systems and complexity
as it seemed to us that there has been a significant
international resurgence in these areas in recent
years. It would appear that this has been driven by at
least four simultaneous forces:

1. People right across the public, private and
voluntary sectors looking for new ways to manage or
deal with increasingly complex and multi-faceted
problems;

2. The obviously systemic character of many
high-profile issues that transcend national
boundaries, from global warming to international
violence;

3. The popularization of a number of systems
approaches in the mid-1990s, especially among managers
and policy makers, and;

4. The simultaneous popularization of complexity
science, sparking major interest in new approaches to
managing uncertainty.

The fields of systems and complexity have many
similarities, yet they are being developed by two
overlapping research communities that have unique
insights to bring to bear on the management of
?wicked? problems. We believe that, by providing
forums, such as this conference, in which people
working at the frontiers of complexity and systems
thinking can learn from one another, significant new
insights for action can emerge. At the end of the day,
it is important to the vast majority of those working
with complexity and systems ideas that they are able
to make a positive difference in people?s lives. It is
therefore vitally important that we share our insights
and build a community of practitioners that can take
the research agenda forward. Our aim is to bring
together as many people as possible who are engaging
with complex environmental, social and business
issues, with the intention of promoting an intense and
lively debate with real implications for systems and
complexity practice. Our hope is that this conference
was a step in the right direction."

A full list of contents is available in PDF form from:

http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Publishing/Christchurch_pro_contents.pdf
For ordering information please visit:
http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=33

ISBN: 0976681498(pb)/0976681447(CDROM)
Editors: Kurt A. Richardson, Wendy J. Gregory and
Gerald Midgley
Publisher: ISCE Publishing
Binding: Softback & CDROM
Pages: 344
2. New issue of Emergence: Complexity & Organization: 
The latest issue of E:CO (8.3) will be available
online in the next couple of days and in print in a
couple of weeks time.  For those of you who already
subscribe to E:CO you will be able to access it online
by the end of this week.  If you do not subscribe, but
would like to please visit the link below to order
your subscription:
http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=40
The contents for the forthcoming issue include:
Academic
Reconceptualizing Chronic Pain as a Complex Adaptive
System - Cary A. Brown
Designed Emergence as a Path to Enterprise
Sustainability - Daniel F. Twomey
Management in R&D Networks as Complex Systems: The
Case of European Networks - J. Carlos Fdez. de
Arroyabe & Nieves Arranz 
Pharmaceutical Discovery as a Complex System of
Decisions: The Case of Front-Loaded Experimentation -
Walter van Dyck & Peter M. Allen
Practitioner
Measuring leadership effectiveness in complex
socio-technical systems - James K. Hazy
Emergence and Community: The Story of Three Complex
Adaptive Entities - Richard W. Stackman, Linda S.
Henderson & Deborah P. Bloch 
Learning at the Edge - Part 1: Transdisciplinary
Conceptions of Boundaries - Alice MacGillivray
Complexity and Philosophy
On the Importance of a Certain Slowness by Paul
Cilliers
This issue will be followed-up by a special issue on
Complexity and Leadership which will appear in
December.
3. Reduced rates for the journal Systems Research and
Behavioral Science:  We are pleased to announce that
the publisher John Wiley has agreed to offer a greatly
reduced individual subscription rate for their popular
journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science for
all ISCE network members.  The usual retail price is
US$260, but ISCE can offer it for US$190.  If you
would like to learn more about this excellent journal
please visit:
http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=48
We are currently looking into the possibility of
offering ISCE network members discounts on other
popular complexity/systems journals.  if you have any
suggestions please let us know.
4. Past E:CO Annuals now available in hardback: Just
recently ISCE Publishing changed its printing
contractor and we can now offer most of our
publications not only at a reduced rate, but also in a
hardback format.  Volumes 6 and 7 of the E:CO Annual
Series are now both available in hardback at prices
less then what we used to offer the softback version
for.  If you'd like further details of these titles,
including contents and pricing, then please visit the
following two links:
Volume 6:
http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_22&products_id=28
Volume 7:
http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_22&products_id=41
If you are working on a complexity-related book or
have an idea for an edited book project then please
contact ISCE Publishing (kurt@isce.edu) to discuss
having it published.
That's about it for now.  I hope you find value in our
complexity publications!
Kind regards,
Kurt Richardson

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