Deep Practical Learning Workshop: Responding to Dynamic Complexity ©Systems Wisdom LLC 2015

Welcome and Overview  Welcome and introductions  Sponsors, instructors, and participants  Intentions of program  Develop competencies and support capacities to deal with the challenges of dynamic complexity.  Engage in the proper approaches to learning  the critical concepts and knowledge of enabling IT to make effective decisions and to improve performance across differing contexts.  Expectations of participants  What do you hope to gain by attending?

Proficiency to Navigate Complexity

About Dynamic Complexity  Each state of dynamic complexity is unique and requires unique responses.  A standardized checklist, algorithm or preformed set of procedures or processes is inadequate.  Proficiency to generate those responses and navigate dynamic complexity is an art.  An expression of creative competencies and imagination, based on rapid integration and deployment of a portfolio of competences and capacities.

What You Will Learn  You will learn:  a new framework for operating in diverse and often complex organizational contexts; how to avoid solving the wrong problem; and new tools for pattern recognition to avoiding “strategic blindness” and to increase understanding of the current operating environment.  Topics include:  The changing landscape of the current operating context  Requirements for different kinds of decision contexts  Design thinking: strategy for change  Implications of systems and design thinking in managing organizations  Direct application of systems thinking and design thinking tools  Experiential learning

Instructor Affiliations John Pourdehnad, PhD : For more than 35 years, John has been a consultant, educator, and practitioner in organizational management, using systems thinking as a world view and communicating its implications for management with for- profit and not-for-profit organizations, and with government agencies. John holds an appointment at University of Pennsylvania where he has taught organizational studies, project management, systems and design thinking, and complex project management at the undergraduate and graduate level. Larry M. Starr, PhD : Larry is a consultant and educator in strategic management, health care, and higher education—with a focus on use of systems and design thinking and practice to better understand and to solve complex challenges. He retired from appointments at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 where for 12 years he was executive director, academic chair and professor of Organizational Dynamics, and accepted an appointment as Adjunct Faculty and Program Architect at Philadelphia University to design a new kind of interdisciplinary professional doctorate in leadership.

Seminars and Workshops Lunch and Learn Seminars Design Thinking Challenges of Dynamic Complexity Project Management Complexities 3-5 Day Workshops Leading with Design Thinking Responding to Dynamic Complexity Project Leadership and Management Complexities PhiladelphiaWashington, DC Toronto Hull/London Sao Paolo Singapore Sydne y