A Taste of Knowledge Lunch and Learn Seminar: Challenges of Dynamic Complexity ©Systems Wisdom LLC 2015

Welcome and Overview  Welcome and introductions  Sponsors, instructors, and participants  Intentions of program  Learn what is needed to deal with the challenges of dynamic complexity.  Provide guidance on why to make the right decisions one much have the proper approaches to learning, knowledge of critical concepts, and knowledge of enabling IT.  Expectations of participants  What do you hope to gain by attending?

Proficiency to Navigate Complexity is an Art

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  Suddenly emerging events can co-produce disruptions in day- to-day operations. Worse, when leaders become acutely aware of the threats, some may not have the cognitive capacity to effectively address them.  You will learn:  A new framework for operating in diverse and often complex organizational contexts each of which requires a different approach to planning, management, leadership and decision-making  How to avoid solving the wrong problem  About new tools to improve pattern recognition to avoid “strategic blindness” and to increase understanding of the current operating environment

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 in 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