By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — […]
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — […]
Borrow a Drill, Save the World — Douglas Rushkoff
The high leverage point for systemwide change is not an idea, but a behavior
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
ASA advances systems analysis as a meta-level approach to understand and govern complex socio-environmental systems. The overall objective is to increase realism, relevance, and agility of systems analysis. How? By harvesting new opportunities provided, in particular, by • New sources of data and methods to convert data into knowledge • Novel modelling approaches and underlying theories enabled by increased computational capabilities • Innovation through transfer of methods across disciplines and expansion of system boundaries • Continuous horizon scanning to identify novel matches between methodologies and applications across all thematic areas of IIASA • Enhanced transdisciplinary research
The Systems Thinker
The Systems Thinker works to catalyze effective change by expanding the use of systems approaches. All articles are available free of charge in an effort to expose as wide of audience as possible. Browse, share with others, save your favorites and tell others about this valuable resource!
My Experience with Leverage Research
I was part of Leverage/Paradigm from 2017–2019. This is a description of my time there.
Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its...
Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. This dependency suggests a potential source of leverage for the public in its relationship...
Scenarios That Shape Our System - ATProtoFans Blog
Part 3 of our "Building Recurring Payments in Public" series where we give describe real-world scenarios based on our behaviors, constraints, and definitions.
TWIST - Investing for systems change
A global collective of investors, practitioners and facilitators, who are actively seeking to contribute to positive systems change.
What is system-level investing?
System-level investing explicitly focuses on how relationships within and between systems impact investment risks and returns
Control Point Analysis
This paper describes an informal method called control point analysis that can be used to catalog and understand the points of power and control created by spec
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Curious about systems — how they behave, how they fail, and what they get up to when nobody is steering.
Community Imbalance Theory
This is my best effort to summarize the last 4 years of community building, governance, and general open source sustainability work I’ve…
How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity... a masterpiece' ED YONG'A hopeful, lyrical - even beautiful - hymn to the systems of mutual aid we embed in our material world' CORY DOCTOROW'An extraordinary book' MARK MIODOWNIK'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' AUSTIN KLEONEvery day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from the sun. The systems that run our world are invisible to us until they fail.Infrastructure enables lives of astounding ease and freedom that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. These technological systems - the most complex and vast ever created by humans - have allowed us to work collectively for the public good. But these systems are now beginning to fail us.Engineering professor Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, and just how much they shape our lives - but also the price they extract, who pays it and in what ways, as well as the threats to our infrastructure in a changing world.From Snowdonia's Electric Mountain to a solar plant in southern India, Chachra shows how we can rebuild our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. We need to learn how to see these systems and to transform them, together, because the cost of not being able to rely on them is unthinkably high.
The Fractal Organisation Manual: How to diagnose & design organisations using the Viable System Model | SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation
RRP: £12.99; Paperback: 192 pp; Publisher: SCiO; ISBN 979-8250847018
ecosyste.ms | Tools and datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure.
Tools and datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure.