I've had a couple of meetings with Rick Davies of Most Significant Change fame of late. The first in a pub in Westminster and then this week at the Development conference. There are a lot of synergies between our work and the opportunity to spend more...

Following John and Lisa's presentations and the question period I was asked to do an ad hoc keynote on how you tell the difference between complex and complicated systems. A request which does not permit more than a minimum of preparation gets the...

Lisa Jordan with the provocative title How Paul Wolfowwitz lost his job. She used to be at the Ford Foundation, responsible for funding a range of projects. Her brief is to create a more international perspective. Wants up on situating networks and...

John Young of the Overseas Development Agency starts off by saying that he is impressed with the attempts to use complexity in development. He wants to focus on one area in the field to see how complexity would apply, namely the link between research...

An interesting technique here, three people asked to comment on the previous day. I summarise below Tricia Wind identity the attractors and how do we monitor them, how do we monitor feedback loops Using narrative to deepend understanding Map it...