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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 — […]
The Systems Thinker
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Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library
Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development...
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify the behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions, what we call "mechanism experiments." These types of experiments can be of great policy value even if the intervention that is tested (or its setting) does not correspond exactly to any realistic policy option.
Against optimization
One of the most inescapable edicts when leading a team is the order to optimize the system towards the organization’s goals.
ver.ooo
Curious about systems — how they behave, how they fail, and what they get up to when nobody is steering.
blacksky-algorithms/rsky
An AT Protocol implementation prioritizing community safety and self-governance, written in Rust.
Association En2Hors - Administration
En2Hors a pour objet de promouvoir la pratique de la danse en organisant des rencontres, des déplacements et la participation à des stages ou des cours.
Toward a Critical Technical Practice
This is a chapter in Geof Bowker, Les Gasser, Leigh Star, and Bill Turner, eds, Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.
Toward a Critical Technical Practice
This is a chapter in Geof Bowker, Les Gasser, Leigh Star, and Bill Turner, eds, Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.
Reflector: Infrastructure for Meetings, by Greyhaven
Most organizations run on meetings. Strategy gets debated there. Decisions get made there. Context lives there. And yet...
How to choose a governance system for your organization
Is your nonprofit, small business, or volunteer group looking for a new way to make decisions? Many groups are questioning our mainstream systems — and that includes the systems by which we make decisions. Governance used to be one of the things we’d all take for granted, and now it’s one of the cho
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How newsrooms, scientific institutions & governments can best use Bluesky
Large organisations need dedicated tools and processes to manage their Bluesky presence and get the most out of ATproto.
e-Government Capacity Building in Bangladesh: An Action Design Research Program
e-Government systems have the potential to improve societal conditions in developing countries, and yet design knowledge to inform interventions to encourage uptake and use of these systems is sparse. An action design research program addressed the problem of limited adoption of e-government in Bangladesh. Inadequate knowledge of the nature of e-government systems was identified as an underlying cause of many other problems. The program aimed to reduce knowledge deficiencies among key decision makers through activities that included the delivery of a custom-made training program supported by a handbook targeted at senior government officers. The project had modest resources and yet yielded significant outcomes. Critical reflection established a number of design principles for a ‘sweet spot change strategy’ for interventions of this type, with the most important principle being to first identify a ‘sweet spot’, a point of maximum leverage, and then to act on it. Issues in achieving academic outcomes from action design research are noted.
Humanitarian aid turns to AI as crises outpace capacity
Purpose-designed AI agents with a focus on safety can provide critical assistance to vulnerable populations.
