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This monograph series presents case studies of approaches to complex problems which exist in human systems throughout the globe. The first issue of the monograph illustrates an approach for creating a structured understanding of the... more
This monograph series presents case studies of approaches to complex problems which exist in human systems throughout the globe. The first issue of the monograph illustrates an approach for creating a structured understanding of the global challenges delineated by the Millennium Project and critical problems identified in the Predicament of Mankind Proposal. It concludes with a reflection on implications for New Strategic Theory and Social Mediation - Communication Theory for democratization.
Research Interests: Future Studies, Complex Systems Science, Communication, Climate Change, World Systems Analysis, and 45 moreGlobal Civil Society, Social Problems, Global Governance, Global Media Studies, Development communication, Millenium Development Goals, Global Social Change, Systems Thinking, Global Citizenship, Democratization, Global Studies, Strategic Planning, Foresight, Communication Theory, Problem Structuring Methods, Global Leadership, Media, Archetypes, Heterodox Economics, Futures Studies, Scenario planning, Peak Oil, Limits to Growth, Limits to Growth, Strategy, Wicked Problems, Future scenarios, Social Mediation, International and Global Strategic Communication, Global Media and Public Relations Ethics, and Public Affairs and Issues Management in Countries with Transitional Economies, Global Crisis, World-Systems Theory, Scenarios, Crisis of Capitalism, Cla, Interpretive Structural Modeling, New Strategic Theory, New Strategic Theory, New Strategic Theory, Global Challenges, Millenium Project, Scenario Building, Alternative Futures, Causal Layered Analysis, End of Growth, and Manoa
"This chapter frames one of the greatest challenges of our time: the invention of methods and technologies that harness the collective intelligence and wisdom of thousands of stakeholders working together on a complex societal systemic... more
"This chapter frames one of the greatest challenges of our time: the invention of methods and technologies that harness the collective intelligence and wisdom of thousands of stakeholders working together on a complex societal systemic problem. The worldwide failures of democracy to respond to global challenges, especially in the domain of governance, call for such massive but still authentic and democratic participatory systems. The authors assert that the need to reinvent democracy is urgent and that it can be done using co-laboratories of democracy. It concludes with a presentation of key findings of colaboratories that aim to reinvent democracy using structured dialogic design methodology applied in small group settings and an introduction into the challenges of scaling up this process to engage thousands."
Research Interests: Democracy and Cyber-Democracy Theory and Practice, Participatory Action Research, Action Research, Design Methods, Cyprus Studies, and 36 moreSystems Thinking, Collaboration, Dialogue, Design Research, Systems Science, Boundary-spanning collaboration, Cross-Cultural Collaborations, Systems Theory, Public Deliberation, Regional Planning/Development, Deliberative Democracy, Dialogue Studies, Democracy, Collaboration Technology, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Design thinking, Urban And Regional Planning, The Theory and practice of democracy, Interreligious Dialogue, Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Intercultural dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Community-Based Participatory Research, Planning, Deliberation, Online deliberation, City and Regional Planning, Deliberative decision making; organizational democracy; Habermas, Group Facilitation, Group Dynamics, Facilitation, Group Work, Collaboration, Knowledge Creation, Intercultural Dialogue and Cross Cultural Encounters, Public Dialogue and Deliberation, Participatory and Deliberative Democracy, Deliberative Democracy and Conflict, Governance and Democracy, and Collaborative Action Research Methodologies
"This commentary sketches the prospective role of The New Strategic Theory (espoused by the Communication Strategies Ibero-American Forum (FISEC)), and emerging communication theories of Latin America in revamping our approach to... more
"This commentary sketches the prospective role of The New Strategic Theory (espoused by the Communication Strategies Ibero-American Forum (FISEC)), and emerging communication theories of Latin America in revamping our approach to deliberation and democratization to address global challenges.
The attached file is a draft of my commentary on the Monograph.
The full monograph is available at: http://www.academia.edu/3386273/Strategic_Articulation_of_Actions_to_Cope_with_the_Huge_Challenges_of_our_World_Today"
The attached file is a draft of my commentary on the Monograph.
The full monograph is available at: http://www.academia.edu/3386273/Strategic_Articulation_of_Actions_to_Cope_with_the_Huge_Challenges_of_our_World_Today"
Research Interests: Future Studies, Complex Systems Science, Communication, Climate Change, World Systems Analysis, and 29 moreGlobal Civil Society, Social Problems, Global Governance, Global Media Studies, Development communication, Millenium Development Goals, Systems Thinking, Global Citizenship, Democratization, Strategic Planning, Communication Theory, Problem Structuring Methods, Global Leadership, Media, Heterodox Economics, Peak Oil, Limits to Growth, Strategy, Future scenarios, Social Mediation, International and Global Strategic Communication, Global Media and Public Relations Ethics, and Public Affairs and Issues Management in Countries with Transitional Economies, Global Crisis, Abductive Inference, Abductive Reasoning, Crisis of Capitalism, Interpretive Structural Modeling, New Directions In Strategy, New Strategic Theory, and End of Growth
"How the Youth of the World are Creating Real-World Solutions for the UN Millenium Development Goals and Beyond." My contribution, as a participant in the Design Science Lab is included in Part IV : Global Health for All - Hooked-Up... more
"How the Youth of the World are Creating Real-World Solutions for the UN Millenium Development Goals and Beyond."
My contribution, as a participant in the Design Science Lab is included in Part IV : Global Health for All
- Hooked-Up Health Huts, pages 210-213.
- Cambodia Water Network: Bringing Cambodia Clean Water pages 214-217.
- Eradication of Malaria: Flower Power, pages 218-221.
My contribution, as a participant in the Design Science Lab is included in Part IV : Global Health for All
- Hooked-Up Health Huts, pages 210-213.
- Cambodia Water Network: Bringing Cambodia Clean Water pages 214-217.
- Eradication of Malaria: Flower Power, pages 218-221.
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Research Interests: Public Administration, Dispute Resolution, Courts, Mediation, Evidence and Public Policy, and 12 moreConflict Resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Mediation Strategies, Massachusetts, Return on Investment, Public Funding, Evidence Based Policy, Decision Maker, International Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Meta Analysis and Systematic Review, Trial Courts, and Information model
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"This chapter frames one of the greatest challenges of our time: the invention of methods and technologies that harness the collective intelligence and wisdom of thousands of stakeholders working together on a complex societal... more
"This chapter frames one of the greatest challenges of our time: the invention of methods and technologies that harness the collective intelligence and wisdom of thousands of stakeholders working together on a complex societal systemic problem. The worldwide failures of democracy to respond to global challenges, especially in the domain of governance, call for such massive but still authentic and democratic participatory systems. The authors assert that the need to reinvent democracy is urgent and that it can be done using co-laboratories of democracy. It concludes with a presentation of key findings of colaboratories that aim to reinvent democracy using structured dialogic design methodology applied in small group settings and an introduction into the challenges of scaling up this process to engage thousands."
Research Interests: Participatory Action Research, Action Research, Design Methods, Cyprus Studies, Systems Thinking, and 33 moreCollaboration, Dialogue, Design Research, Systems Science, Boundary-spanning collaboration, Cross-Cultural Collaborations, Systems Theory, Public Deliberation, Deliberative Democracy, Dialogue Studies, Democracy, Collaboration Technology, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Design thinking, Urban And Regional Planning, The Theory and practice of democracy, Interreligious Dialogue, Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Intercultural dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Community Based Participatory Research, Planning, Deliberation, Online deliberation, City and Regional Planning, Regional Planning Development, Intercultural Dialogue and Cross Cultural Encounters, Public Dialogue and Deliberation, Participatory and Deliberative Democracy, Deliberative Democracy and Conflict, Governance and Democracy, and Collaborative Action Research Methodologies
An action case study demonstrates an effective integration of collaborative planning using long-range foresight in a hierarchical government research organization. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of... more
An action case study demonstrates an effective integration of collaborative planning using long-range foresight in a hierarchical government research organization. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative, bottom-up strategic planning as a complement to top-down strategizing. Large research institutions plan investment over long time horizons and must cope with significant uncertainty, complexity, and mandate changes. Collaborative foresight enhances organizational resilience by improving ideation, problem definition, and consensus in long-horizon strategies. It increases the variety of perspectives in scenario creation, resulting in improved strategic options. Structured Dialogic Design (SDD) was employed as a complementary strategic planning method to the mandated Capabilities-Based Planning (CBP) process. The two methods were conducted in parallel sessions with different organizational participants, strictly limiting information sharing between teams. Participants using SDD to plan efficiently produced a detailed structure representing long-horizon strategic challenges and solution ideas. This collaborative foresight approach demonstrated strong consensus for organizational priorities defined in scenarios and investment pathways. The SDD method demonstrated that transactive and generative planning integrated with traditional rational planning and surpassed it by incorporating deep tacit knowledge from diverse participants. It also fostered organizational cohesion through facilitated collaboration in the planning sessions.
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This paper reports the results of a series of three co-laboratories organized by the Civil Society Dialogue Project (between July and October 2007) that aimed at bringing together Turkish-speaking and Greek-speaking Cypriot citizens to... more
This paper reports the results of a series of three co-laboratories organized by the Civil Society Dialogue Project (between July and October 2007) that aimed at bringing together Turkish-speaking and Greek-speaking Cypriot citizens to share their experiences and work together to create a citizens’ platform, as well as to devise an action plan for a reunited Cyprus. Twenty-one business and economist stakeholder representatives with diverse perspectives and experience participated in three successive bi-communal co-laboratories focused on the issue of economic integration in Cyprus, which was identified by Cypriot peace pioneers as one of the main causes of the perceived widening of the gap between the two divided communities in Cyprus. They invested more than 325 hours person-hours. The purpose of the co-laboratories was to support the dialogue of a motivated group of economists and business experts representing both communities. The co-laboratories provided space for exchanging ideas as well as exploring future options and goals, besides diagnosing current problems in economic integration and the free movement of goods and services in Cyprus. More specifically, the economic integration co-laboratories aimed at envisioning the ideal, desired situation, defining the current problematic economic situation on the island, and exploring the influences between alternative actions that could improve the current situation. The co-laboratories were organized using the Structured Dialogic Design process within the context of a rich web-based communication environment. We report the results from all three projects.
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Future Studies, Intercultural Communication, Critical Discourse Studies, Development Studies, and 106 moreParticipatory Action Research, Decision Making, Action Research, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Groupware, Policy Analysis and Decision Making, Argumentation Systems (Computer Science), Participatory Design, Global Civil Society, Strategic Foresight, Scenario Based Planning, Strategic Studies, Development communication, Cyprus Studies, Collaboration, Governance, Dialogue, Computer-Mediated Communication, Alternative forms of management and organization, International Political Economy, Boundary-spanning collaboration, Boundary-Spanning Knowledge Sharing, Boundary Spanning Communication, Strategic Culture, Political communication, Strategic Planning, Strategy (Strategic Planning), Small group Processes, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Strategic Communication, Foresight, Collaborative Design, Computer Supported Collaborative Design, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Decision Support Systems, Strategy Planning, Critical Discourse Analysis, Economic Development, Collaborative Systems, International Strategic Alliance, Group communication, Cyprus conflict, Economic integration, Strategic Design, Cyprus, International Economic Relations, Futures Studies, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Collaboration Technology, Scenario planning, Political Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Cross-Organizational Cross-Border Collaboration, Group Processes, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, DIscourse, Social and Groups Psychology, Governance and Civil Society, Civic Engagement, Intercultural Conflict Resolution, Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Relations and InterCultural Issues, Intercultural dialogue, Economic Diplomacy, Futures Studies and Foresight, Civil Society, Intercultural Communication and Public Diplomacy, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Communication Studies, Strategic Thinking, The Cyprus Problem, Nominal Group Technique, Grand Strategy, Argumentation based decision making Tools, Cyprus and the East Mediterranean, Future scenarios, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Rapprochement, Reunification planning, Collaborative Planning, International and Global Strategic Communication, Global Media and Public Relations Ethics, and Public Affairs and Issues Management in Countries with Transitional Economies, Peacemaking and Interfaith Dialogue, Participatory Decision Making, Group Facilitation, Group Dynamics, Facilitation, Group Work, Collaboration, Knowledge Creation, International Strategy, Abductive Inference, Scenarios, Civil society's role in reunification, Civil Society Capacity Building and Development, Intercultural Dialogue and Cross Cultural Encounters, Diplomacy and international relations, Abductive Reasoning, Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation, Public Administration and Policy, University-Industry Collaboration, Economy of Northern Cyprus, Visual Argumentation, Dialogic argumentation, Interpretive Structural Modeling, Multi Track Diplomacy, Alternative Futures, International Collaboration, Deliberative Democracy and Conflict, Cross sector Collaboration, and Collaborative Action Research Methodologies
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A response to the increasing complexity and risk of designing and planning social systems, especially inter-organizational collaborations, is to ground methodologies on well-researched principles and empirically verify the efficacy of... more
A response to the increasing complexity and risk of designing and planning social systems, especially inter-organizational collaborations, is to ground methodologies on well-researched principles and empirically verify the efficacy of their application. Recent examples from our arena of practice include engaging representatives of fifty organizations in planning a twenty year global Disease Elimination program, international philanthropy-government-venture capital sponsored industrial-academic consortia in Northern Ireland, external stakeholder-driven modernization of regulatory policy, Federal and State interagency coordination for resource stewardship, and statewide engagement of stakeholders in special education.
Research Interests: Organizational Learning Processes, Participatory Design, Community Engagement & Participation, Large Group Designs, Urban Planning, and 21 moreDecision Making Processes, Public Deliberation, Strategic Planning, Small group Processes, Deliberative Democracy, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Group Dynamics, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Group Processes, Urban And Regional Planning, Civic Engagement, Large group dynamics, Group Facilitation, Small Group/ Team Communication, Nominal Group Technique, City and Regional Planning, Civic participation, Deliberative decision making; organizational democracy; Habermas, Group Facilitation, Group Dynamics, Facilitation, Group Work, Collaboration, Knowledge Creation, Community participation and engagement, and Interpretive Structural Modeling
The Administrative Office of the Trial Court sponsored the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR) at the University of Massachusetts Boston to prepare this working paper depicting the state of research on alternative dispute... more
The Administrative Office of the Trial Court sponsored the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR) at the University of Massachusetts Boston to prepare this working paper depicting the state of research on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for the purpose of compiling an evidence base for public funding of court ADR programs.
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""Political decision-making by elites require some form of civilian participation to regain legitimacy. Increasingly groups of Citizens do not trust in political elites and are increasingly frustrated by their behavior. When faced with... more
""Political decision-making by elites require some form of civilian participation to regain legitimacy. Increasingly groups of Citizens do not trust in political elites and are increasingly frustrated by their behavior. When faced with the problem of diversity, even established democracies face problems of managing diversity. In the global context differences of opinion, culture, religion etc has defined many of the New Wars (Kaldor 1999). In the United States many non-state and semi-governmental organizations have developed programs to increase public knowledge of the legislature and its decision-making processes. The ultimate purpose of this is to exercise some control over state power. Legislators are also increasingly convening dialogue processes with their constituencies in order to create the best possible problem-solving mechanisms.
Before the United States‘ model of public deliberation, many indigenous communities practiced a form of joint problem-solving in their villages throughout the world. But the history of New England is rich with a particular form of public deliberation that has continually demonstrated a capacity to increase civic participation and control of state power. New England Town Meetings are a model for direct democracy. The United States, which is also exporting democracy as a political and economic theory to countries facing violent conflict must improve its process domestically before contemplating its possible replication elsewhere. New England‘s public forums have faced certain challenges that must be overcome. These include theoretical and practical challenges with regard to their overall impact on legitimacy through increased citizen participation in decision-making.
Deliberative democracy must prove that citizens can arrive at decisions that can affect the community in a positive way and that these decisions can be implemented by law-makers for the good of the people. While engaged in this process, the public must also grapple with the established forms of decision-making, lack of capacity and interest by its members, elite behavior and other practical and theoretical limitations.""
Before the United States‘ model of public deliberation, many indigenous communities practiced a form of joint problem-solving in their villages throughout the world. But the history of New England is rich with a particular form of public deliberation that has continually demonstrated a capacity to increase civic participation and control of state power. New England Town Meetings are a model for direct democracy. The United States, which is also exporting democracy as a political and economic theory to countries facing violent conflict must improve its process domestically before contemplating its possible replication elsewhere. New England‘s public forums have faced certain challenges that must be overcome. These include theoretical and practical challenges with regard to their overall impact on legitimacy through increased citizen participation in decision-making.
Deliberative democracy must prove that citizens can arrive at decisions that can affect the community in a positive way and that these decisions can be implemented by law-makers for the good of the people. While engaged in this process, the public must also grapple with the established forms of decision-making, lack of capacity and interest by its members, elite behavior and other practical and theoretical limitations.""
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A grand challenge facing government, industry, and academia in the relationship of our technological society to the environment is reinventing the use of materials. To address this challenge, collaboration from an interdisciplinary group... more
A grand challenge facing government, industry, and academia in the relationship of our technological society to the environment is reinventing the use of materials. To address this challenge, collaboration from an interdisciplinary group of stakeholders will be necessary. Traditionally, the approach to risk management of materials and chemicals has been through inerventions intended to reduce exposure to materials that are hazardous to health and the environment. In 1990, the Pollution Prevention Act encouraged a new tact-elimination of hazards at the source. An emerging approach to this grand challenge seeks to embed the diverse set of environmental perspectives and interests in the everyday practice of the people most responsible for using and creating new materials—chemists. The approach, which has come to be known as Green Chemistry, intends to eliminate intrinsic hazard itself, rather than focusing on reducing risk by minimizing exposure. This chapter addresses the representation of downstream environmental stakeholder interests in the upstream everyday practice that is reinventing chemistry and its material inputs, products, and waste as described in the “12 Principles of Green Chemistry”.
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Coatings of quaternary ammonium tertiary structures (QUATS) copolymerized with 4-vinylbenzylthymine (VBT) exhibited high antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli. Immobilization of QUATS improves environmental performance by... more
Coatings of quaternary ammonium tertiary structures (QUATS) copolymerized with 4-vinylbenzylthymine (VBT) exhibited high antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli. Immobilization of QUATS improves environmental performance by preventing release of antibacterials to the environment, helping to preclude the emergence of resistant strains. The crosslinking immobilization scheme reported herein provides a more environmentally benign and more inexpensive synthesis than previously reported, thus reducing the use of solvents, energy, and production time. Development of water soluble, thymine-based photopolymers was inspired by the UV-induced 2pi + 2pi photocyclodimerization of thymine in DNA. Copolymers of 4-vinylbenzylthymine and trimethylammonium chloride, triethylammonium chloride, or dimethyloctylammonium chloride were synthesized in different monomer ratios. The antibacterial properties were tested by coating VBT:QUATS in sterilized petri dishes, crosslinking under short UV light, spraying with aqueous suspensions of bacterial cells, air drying, and then applying agar media to promote bacterial growth. The plates were incubated for 24 h at 37 degrees C. The number of viable cells ranged from 17 to 0% growth. Immobilized VBT:QUAT copolymers are antiseptic surfaces that can be produced in an environmentally benign fashion.
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Research Interests: Patient Safety, Medical errors, Drug Policy, Pharmaceutical Policy, Drug Safety, Medicine, Pharmacovigilance, and 8 moreSAFE USE OF MEDICINES, Quality and patient safety, Patient Compliance, Patients' safety; multidisplinary healthcare; paediatrics pharmaceutical care, Drug Safety, Iatrogenic Harm, Political Economy, Health Systems, Pharmaceutical Policy, and Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation
A. Objective of the Pharmaceutical Safety Project Develop a consensus on the accountability and responsibility of the community of stakeholders for pharmaceutical safety and design a collaborative action plan. B. The Purpose and Scope... more
A. Objective of the Pharmaceutical Safety Project
Develop a consensus on the accountability and responsibility of the community of stakeholders for pharmaceutical safety and design a collaborative action plan.
B. The Purpose and Scope of this Document
The primary purpose of this preliminary white paper is to orient participants in the NPSF Collaborative Action Planning Workshop on June 10-11, 1999. It is focused on problem framing and context for the Pharmaceutical Safety Project as suggested by interviews with a subset of participants. The format for this workshop is provided in a scenario in Appendix G.
The secondary purpose is to begin the collective cultivation of a white paper, on the Collaborative Action Plan, to be published in July, 1999. The white paper will be based predominantly on contributions of participants before, during, and after the workshop.
The content of this present document depicts the emergence of the discourse on issues and critical problems in Pharmaceutical Safety. This draft is intended to provide a context for the level of discourse during the workshop by summarizing topics of discussion identified by the interviewees. The content draws on a first round of interviews of a subset of workshop participants and thought leaders, which elicited 145 statements of perspectives on framing issues in pharmaceutical safety.
Develop a consensus on the accountability and responsibility of the community of stakeholders for pharmaceutical safety and design a collaborative action plan.
B. The Purpose and Scope of this Document
The primary purpose of this preliminary white paper is to orient participants in the NPSF Collaborative Action Planning Workshop on June 10-11, 1999. It is focused on problem framing and context for the Pharmaceutical Safety Project as suggested by interviews with a subset of participants. The format for this workshop is provided in a scenario in Appendix G.
The secondary purpose is to begin the collective cultivation of a white paper, on the Collaborative Action Plan, to be published in July, 1999. The white paper will be based predominantly on contributions of participants before, during, and after the workshop.
The content of this present document depicts the emergence of the discourse on issues and critical problems in Pharmaceutical Safety. This draft is intended to provide a context for the level of discourse during the workshop by summarizing topics of discussion identified by the interviewees. The content draws on a first round of interviews of a subset of workshop participants and thought leaders, which elicited 145 statements of perspectives on framing issues in pharmaceutical safety.
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A Deliberation on Health Care Access, outlined herein, is a design for synthesizing the voice of regional stakeholders in health care. The outcome of this work addresses the question of what ought to be done to improve access to health... more
A Deliberation on Health Care Access, outlined herein, is a design for synthesizing the voice of regional stakeholders in health care. The outcome of this work addresses the question of what ought to be done to improve access to health care in the region. The first engagement of this deliberation is with Leadership South Coast and area leaders in the health care community of the region.
The project wiki is http://deliberateaccess.wikispaces.com/
The project wiki is http://deliberateaccess.wikispaces.com/
Research Interests: Mental Health Service Access, Health Care Policy, Dialogue, Health Care Service Access and Utilization, Public Deliberation, and 7 moreQualitative Health Research, Health Care and Social Service Access and Utilization, Healthcare design, Health Policy, Access to health services, Deliberation, and Health related Quality of Life
"This Lab operates since 2005 with aim the further development of the science of dialogic design. Using a combination of asynchronous and synchronous communication tools for engaging stakeholders at different places in a disciplined... more
"This Lab operates since 2005 with aim the further development of the science of dialogic design.
Using a combination of asynchronous and synchronous communication tools for engaging stakeholders at different places in a disciplined dialogue, we aim to deliver reasonably effective and useful results at a shorter time and at a lower cost to the participants and the sponsors of the dialogue. This new ‘technology of democracy’ aspires to engage up to 1000 participants in structured dialogues."
Using a combination of asynchronous and synchronous communication tools for engaging stakeholders at different places in a disciplined dialogue, we aim to deliver reasonably effective and useful results at a shorter time and at a lower cost to the participants and the sponsors of the dialogue. This new ‘technology of democracy’ aspires to engage up to 1000 participants in structured dialogues."
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Jones, P. H., & Dye, K. M. C. (2000, September). A methodology and system for designing
organizational ontologies. Paper presented at the First International Workshop on Theory
and Applications of Knowledge Management, Greenwich, England.
organizational ontologies. Paper presented at the First International Workshop on Theory
and Applications of Knowledge Management, Greenwich, England.
Research Interests: Organizational Change, Systems Science, Strategic Planning, Strategic Human Resource Management, Organizational Development, and Systems thinking, complexity science, emergence and organisational development, the application of knowledge from Quakerism to public policy to achieve social enterprise and sustainable development
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Eight Day Training program in Facilitation and Computer Operation for the Structured Democratic Dialogue method. Covers Nominal Group Technique, Clustering, and Interpretive Structural Modeling using the CogniScope software as well as... more
Eight Day Training program in Facilitation and Computer Operation for the Structured Democratic Dialogue method. Covers Nominal Group Technique, Clustering, and Interpretive Structural Modeling using the CogniScope software as well as online dialogue on mobile phones via IdeaPrizm.
Research Interests: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Collaboration, Dialogue, Clustering and Classification Methods, Public Deliberation, and 23 moreComputer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Computer Supported Collaborative Design, Deliberative Democracy, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Meetings, Collaboration Technology, Collaborative Learning, Deliberation, Group Facilitation, Online deliberation, Nominal Group Technique, Deliberative decision making; organizational democracy; Habermas, Group Facilitation, Group Dynamics, Facilitation, Group Work, Collaboration, Knowledge Creation, Facilitation, E-Collaboration Technology, Interpretive Structural Modeling, Training and Facilitation, Meetings Management, Deliberative Democracy and Conflict, Clustering Methods, Interpretive Structural Models, Interpretive Structural Modelling, and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)
Special Topic: Decision Support Systems for Large Group Decision Making The focus of this course is learning and using a computer-supported, dialogue-based process to enhance speed and accuracy of decision making in large group... more
Special Topic: Decision Support Systems for Large Group Decision Making
The focus of this course is learning and using a computer-supported, dialogue-based process to enhance speed and accuracy of decision making in large group collaborative design processes. Participants will be trained in the use of a demonstration version of a commercial software product for root cause analysis with groups and will develop a theoretic and practical understanding of the dynamics and practices of decision making in large groups. Guest speakers and experts from industry will be invited to contribute to class discussions as opportunities allow.
The focus of this course is learning and using a computer-supported, dialogue-based process to enhance speed and accuracy of decision making in large group collaborative design processes. Participants will be trained in the use of a demonstration version of a commercial software product for root cause analysis with groups and will develop a theoretic and practical understanding of the dynamics and practices of decision making in large groups. Guest speakers and experts from industry will be invited to contribute to class discussions as opportunities allow.
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Critical and Creative Thinking in the Workplace Complex planning under conditions of limited resources is not a new challenge. Historically, however, such types of planning has been authored by experts with deep generic understanding... more
Critical and Creative Thinking in the Workplace
Complex planning under conditions of limited resources is not a new challenge. Historically, however, such types of planning has been authored by experts with deep generic understanding of the problem. Such plans, once sufficiently developed, are then typically brought forward to the public for review and endorsement. This model is no longer working as reliably as it formerly had. The public has increased access to information and a decreased reliance on the infallibility of experts. For this reason, many planning activities have been opened up for a broader and more direct public input. The public input is also being solicited earlier in the design process. While these are admittedly promising trends, the new challenge has become how to manage the dialog. In this workshop, participants will engage a process for dialog management. The dialog will be focused on a socially and technically complex design challenge --"defining the requirements for effectively managing collaborative design of sociotechnically complex systems." Participants will come away with both a deeper systematic understanding of the dialog management challenge, an experientially understanding of one approach for managing that challenge, and a network of individuals who are engaged in a shared management challenge.
Complex planning under conditions of limited resources is not a new challenge. Historically, however, such types of planning has been authored by experts with deep generic understanding of the problem. Such plans, once sufficiently developed, are then typically brought forward to the public for review and endorsement. This model is no longer working as reliably as it formerly had. The public has increased access to information and a decreased reliance on the infallibility of experts. For this reason, many planning activities have been opened up for a broader and more direct public input. The public input is also being solicited earlier in the design process. While these are admittedly promising trends, the new challenge has become how to manage the dialog. In this workshop, participants will engage a process for dialog management. The dialog will be focused on a socially and technically complex design challenge --"defining the requirements for effectively managing collaborative design of sociotechnically complex systems." Participants will come away with both a deeper systematic understanding of the dialog management challenge, an experientially understanding of one approach for managing that challenge, and a network of individuals who are engaged in a shared management challenge.