I am sending you below a short info about the conference we are
running here in South Africa. If you think that it might be relevant
for learning organisations, please forward it to the list.
Thanks
Alp
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SYSTEMS THINKING AT WORK
Conference and Workshops
hosted by
University of Cape Town
The School of Engineering Management
The Programme for Systems Management
14, 15, 16 and 17 November 1995
Presentation of workshops and papers by Dr Peter Senge, Prof Bob
Flood and by other leading systems thinkers and practitioners in
South Africa and overseas. This conference and workshops are about
practice, and they have two major objectives :
* to make systems thinking and related concepts more accessible to a
wider audience,
* to demonstrate how systems thinking has been, and is being used in
real situations.
Workshop Topics
* Introductory Workshop to Systems Thinking
* Problem Solving (by Dr. Johan Struempfer)
* Learning as Modeling (by Prof. Tom Ryan)
*Systems Thinking at Work in Education (by Svea van der Hoorn)
*In Conversation with Peter Senge (by Dr Peter Senge)
*Using the Systems Approach in Business Process Re-engineering
(by Warren Topp)
*Dialogue, Learning and Systems Thinking (by Glennifer Gillespie and
Beth Jandernoa)
*System Dynamics Modeling (by Dr. Johan Struempfer and Alp Baysal)
*A Participatory Workshop on Redesigning the Health
Care System From a Process Based Systems Perspective (Teleonics) (by
Elisabeth Dostal and Anachreon Cloete)
*Solving Problem Solving (by Prof Bob Flood)
Venue
Education Building, Middle Campus, University of Cape Town.
Contact :
-- Alp Baysal School of Engineering Management University of Cape Town e-mail : alp@engmlab.uct.ac.za tel : 27-21-650 26 00 fax : 27-21-689 27 37