Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research in Managing Complexity

Part 1: Organizational Theme. - Using systems modeling to examine law enforcement collaboration in the response to serious crime. - Managing Complexity in Organizations through a Systemic Network of Projects. - Family of Related Systemic Elements (FoRSE ) Matrix: Big(ger) Picture Thinking and Application for Business and Organizations. - Part 2: Disaster Management Theme. - Disentangling wicked problems: a reflexive approach towards resilience governance. - Post-disaster reconstruction what does it mean to rebuild with resilience. - Black swans, dragon kings and beyond: towards predictability and suppression of extreme all-hazards events through modeling and simulation. - Part 3: Systems approaches Theme. - Supporting Intelligence Analysis through visual thinking. - The Benefits of systems-thinking approach to accident investigation. - Systems Theory as a foundation for discovery of pathologies from complex system problem formulation. - Soft (?) social systems and shocks: an experiment with an agent based model. - System Failure? Why humanitarian assistance can t met its objectives without systems thinking- and why it finds it so hard to use it. - Using First Nations systems thinking to operationalize sustainable development.