SystemsWiki

Using storytelling to communicate the insights and understanding associated with relationship models. Created for a presentation at one of Deeanna Burleson's Systems Thinking sessions.

This is the Kumu project which can be Forked to create a new project with all the settings and types I use when creating relationship models. The attached videos provide an introduction to Kumu as well as the conventions and rationale I use when creating relationship models.

Crop Damage presents a synthesis of understanding distilled down to a single question... And? And what does this influence? And what influences this? This is based on an old Sufi saying, "Because you understand one, you think you understand two because one and one is two. But first, you have to understand AND."

When we encounter a situation other than what we consider it should be we typically refer to it as a problem though if we investigate intently we're likely to find the problem is seldom what it was initially perceived to be. This perspective presents a set of relationships I never thought about and as such, I ended up in a predicament I never saw coming.

Asynchronous Virtual Collaboration is an interactive learning mode I've been pondering for years. It is intended to be method which enables a group of people to develop a shared understanding of a situation when they are distributed across the globe and are seldom if able to get together in anything representing a meeting of a majority of the participants. The development of this project is actually an Asynchronous Virtual Collaboration, or at lest it is hoped to be.

This is an experiment in the asynchronous collaborative development of a set of notes that might be useful to those engaged in remote group model building.

This Kumu project provides learning environments for developing Insight Maker Simulations, Insight Maker Storytelling, and Agent-Based Models.

The city of Bergen has a goal of becoming fossil-free in 2030. How do we get there? Some weeks ago, local experts from different domains came together and developed a causal loop diagram (CLD). This will form the skeleton for the modelling hackathon.

What constitutes a sustainable localized food system for a rural community? Source as local as possible from locally owned and operated to benefit the community.

This is the Kumu project which can be Forked to create a new project with all the settings and types I use when creating relationship models. The attached videos provide an introduction to Kumu as well as the conventions and rationale I use when creating relationship models.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

We are suffering from corruption, oppression and bad education. It seems the inherent nature of the structure is to corrupt. And if that is the case then isn't some explicit action required to avoid the inevitable? Though if the corrupting influence is in charge what's the likelihood that any action to avoid the inevitable will happen? Is there a way out other than complete economic meltdown and revolution?

The world we experience today is the result of yesterday's actions and we create the future based on today's actions, and sometimes inaction. This model investigates relationships which describe the manner in which we create the future based on our understanding or lack thereof.

Over the past 4+ decades of developing relationship models there have been numerous insights that would have served me well had I had them earlier along the journey. The associated relationship model is an attempt to surface those I've found most beneficial along with thoughts about how they might be related. The following link is to the video from the 20.07.10 session with Jerry Michalski's Open Global Mind group.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Storytelling with Kumu is a free online learning program which presents a rationale for using storytelling to communicate the meaning of models as well as how to best utilize the presentation features within Kumu. Included are tips & tricks learned along the way as well as exercises to develop one's expertise using the presentation features.

Crop Damage presents a synthesis of understanding distilled down to a single question... And? And what does this influence? And what influences this? This is based on an old Sufi saying, "Because you understand one, you think you understand two because one and one is two. But first, you have to understand AND."

Interconnectedness of World Problems. Our future in a nutshell?

This model will endeavor to provide a sense of how to begin with an apparent problem and research the relationships to evolve a relationship model that can be used to convey the current level of understanding.

This model unfolds Aesop's Fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, as a set of relationships and their influences. The intent is to demonstrate how easily we learn the wrong things from experience, and then use that learning as a belief governing future actions. Future actions, which only serve to confuse us when they don't produce the desired results. To quote Pogo, one more time, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

Crop Damage presents a synthesis of understanding distilled down to a single question... And? And what does this influence? And what influences this? This is based on an old Sufi saying, "Because you understand one, you think you understand two because one and one is two. But first, you have to understand AND."

This is the Kumu project which can be Forked to create a new project with all the settings and types I use when creating relationship models. The attached videos provide an introduction to Kumu as well as the conventions and rationale I use when creating relationship models.

Circular Economy Model

How the development of a relationship model promotes understanding and insights as a basis for more effective action dealing with a situation.

Systems Thinking World was established by and for those who believe a systemic perspective provides the best foundation for creating effective approaches for dealing with challenges and shaping a better tomorrow. Our purpose is to create content, foster interactions and to apply systems thinking to further an understanding of a systemic perspective to enable thinking and acting systemically.

Mapping the many forces driving quality of life in Hawaii. v2 employs the URL, Popover and Lightbox features to have the loops displayed in a lightbox on the main screen so one doesn't lose context.

Looking to better understand my Linkedin connections. Nodes, Hubs, Job Titles, Access, Reach, Patterns

The implications associated with setting goals which makes the activity self-limiting along with approaches to dealing with that situation.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Dialogue Map

Given a situation where the expected completion data for a project is later than the prescribed deadline what are the options available for the project to get it back on track.

The insights arrived at when participants in the Certified Systems Thinker program asked how to sell systems thinking to their organization.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Given a performance gap this model investigates the implications of working harder or working smarter.

Some Examples

F5 Business Case & Process Model

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Investigation of the relationships responsible for the failure of nations.

When we encounter a situation other than we consider it should be we typically refer to it as a problem though if we investigate intently we're likely to find the problem is seldom what it was initially perceived to be. This perspective presents a set of relationships I never thought about and as such, I ended up in a predicament I never saw coming.

This project was developed for at the basis for a California Green Academy web presentation on 2017.11.02

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Effective Solutions might be referred to as an interactive learning environment or an evolving collaborative problem-solving environment. It presents a basis for why we typically create solutions which are only temporary, solutions which make the situation worse or create new problems that have to be dealt with. Effective Solutions then provides an approach for developing solutions which engage the relevant stakeholders in creating enduring solutions which don't create new solutions in the process.

Network Magic is a small high-tech startup which has brought a very functional family of network routers to market at a price point very attractive to the market. As such they are growing rapidly and experiencing all kinds of growing pains. The model unfolds a set of relationships detailing what seems to be the current most sticky wicket

Nature Understands: Why don't we listen? is a presentation created for Skillsfest 4.0.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Here are some initial thoughts on using Kumu to connect multi-threaded discussions in a single structure.

How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change

Often actions taken to reduce poverty do just opposite, making matters even worse.

An example of how developing an expertise is shifted to presales support.

An investigation into influences driving the changes in oil prices the beginning of 2016.

Investigation the extent to which time management actually helps us deal with our lack of time available.

Oil System Model from James Breaus

An investigation into the ways we create context that creates poverty. This is also intended to be an example of how the content of articles actually have a systemic structure which may be expressed as one or more stories in relationship models.

Project Systems: Distinguishing Fact From Fantasy

Unexpected implications of acting to respond to tax revenue pressure

A relationship model which is considered to be at the center of Google's business strategy. Admittedly this is only a perspective as I've not seen it published.

Implications of interactions with a larger system that might initially be considered.

Are we victims of the system or are we just dealing with systems of the victim.

Investigation into why we're not all rich

The evolution of a model started by Geoff McDonnell based on the May 2014 special issue of Science.

How we address symptoms and avoid real lasting solutions.

Teacher cheating on standardized tests is a recurring theme in recent national headlines, ranging from teachers looking at tests in advance to develop study guides, to teachers and administrators erasing and correcting student answers after they have submitted tests. The media and the school communities have responded to these stories with shock and out-rage, often vilifying individual teachers and administrators.

The typical response to road congestion in time simply makes matters worse.

How to spot a revolution in the making from a Ben Franklin correspondence.

This model investigates the influences which currently work in opposition to sustainable capitalism. The model then presents a view that might actually promote sustainable capitalism.

An example of how the most obvious answers to diminish protests just makes matters worse.

A way that starting farmers markets may backfire

The basic structure of this insight applies across industry boundaries--whether consumer or industrial, products or services.

The relentless pursuit of having less.

Enabling Virtual Collaboration is a collaborative endeavor to figure out how to curate virtual collaboration endeavors. That is, undertaking to develop a systemic understanding of complex situations and evolve strategies for improving the situation with a high likelihood of avoiding unintended consequences, and doing this with a group of collaborators who are geographically distributed and only able to contribute asynchronously on a periodic basis. This is being evolved into the Asynchronous Virtual Collaboration project.

How the development of a relationship model promotes understanding and insights as a basis for more effective action dealing with a situation.

Investigation of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as to whether it is really Myopic Monetary Theory since it doesn't address the cause of the problem it seeks to fix.

It's one reason we're poorer than our parents.

Economic Sector Model

In this piece, we explore the counter intuitive nature of systems where the best of intentions to address the homelessness situation using the most expedient approach is likely to make things even worse.

This is an old project using the old data model where data is shared across maps. If I need another project in the future that does that then fork this one to create the project.

Content that is visible only to patrons or visible to patrons before it's made public.

AUSTRALIA'S TAX-ADVANTAGED, compulsory, private superannuation system – the jewel in the crown of the legacy of the Hawke/Keating era – is an innocent fraud. The system was introduced with the best of intentions, but it doesn’t do what it was supposed to do.

An elaboration of the model from Ezar Klein's "Why Politics Makes Us Stupid" article.

An experiment to better understand the possibility of crowdsourcing a model associated with homelessness.

Using the YouTube embed script to embed just about anything and have it automatically size to the fit the window it's embedded in.

Effective Solutions might be referred to as an interactive learning environment or an evolving collaborative problem-solving environment. It presents a basis for why we typically create solutions which are only temporary, solutions which make the situation worse or create new problems that have to be dealt with. Effective Solutions then provides an approach for developing solutions which engage the relevant stakeholders in creating enduring solutions which don't create new solutions in the process.

This is a presentation delivered at Skillsfest on 17.08.02 about my personal evolution from being a systems thinker to being a storyteller of relationships and their implications.

An introduction to Kumu which I hope is sufficient for others to begin developing relationship models without having to wade through all the initial Kumu understanding.

The Munro Review of Child Protection: Part One: A Systems Analysis

This perspective presents the Reinforcing Structure, one of the two types of structures which make up all relationship models, the other being the Balancing Structure. I've presented the definition of causal relationships on numerous occasions though this time I'm gonna try to develop the relationship model and then summarize the relationship after. I'm thinking the relationship might be better understood after a context for it is provided.

This perspective presents the Balancing Structure, one of the two types of structures which make up all relationship models, the other being the Reinforcing Structure. I've presented the definition of causal relationships on numerous occasions though this time I'm gonna try to develop the relationship model and then summarize the relationship after. I'm thinking the relationship might be better understood after a context for it is provided.

An introduction to the current state of Systems Thinking World along with a short history of the relentless pursuit of understanding relationships and their implications that got us here.

This project was developed for at the basis for a California Green Academy web presentation on 2017.11.02

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Why is it that changes often return to the way they were before you worked on them. Why is it that the jungle always seems to win!

People often comment that they are overwhelmed by causal relationships and causal relationship diagrams. I expect that the two basic reasons for this are 1) the relationships were never well defined, and 2) relationship maps are typically presented in a manner that asks of people the equivalent of eating an elephant in a single bite. I'm not surprised by the typical result.

Considering the concepts provided Relationships 101 I thought it best to provide a few example structures and demonstrate how they're labeled to tell stories.

Model demonstrating using Kumu to keep track of a network of people and how the connections were develop.

This is a basic Kumu model which can be Forked to create a new project with all the appropriate settings for creating relationship models consistent with the presentation used in And? It's All Connected.

Effective Solutions might be referred to as an interactive learning environment or an evolving collaborative problem-solving environment. It presents a basis for why we typically create solutions which are only temporary, solutions which make the situation worse or create new problems that have to be dealt with. Effective Solutions then provides an approach for developing solutions which engage the relevant stakeholders in creating enduring solutions which don't create new solutions in the process.

An overview of the structure of the Kumu environment with additional maps as appropriate to explain concepts covered along the way.

Kumu Help intended to enable one to find that tidbit of information that demonstrates how to do what they want to do when they want to do it.

A Systems Approach to Strategic Planning & School Improvement

A description of the dynamics of the bathtub model and why most people don't understand dynamics.

Level of Documentation Depends on Intent

A not so informative version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf created specifically for the Storytelling with Kumu course.

Systemigrams

Polarity Map Diagram

Flying Logic Diagrams

Relationship Map

Rich Picture Diagram.

Investigation into what enables a successful online learning community. This project is the focal point for the synthesizing multiple conversations on this topic underway in multiple locations.

This relationship model was developed to sort out what was presented in the Ezra Klein paper titled How Politics Makes Us Stupid.

Value Network Analysis Project

Mind Map

RP/CLD Hybrid

How to create causal loops in Kumu

Learning about Kumu Mapping

Causal Loop Diagram