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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 dayto-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.
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