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Complexity and Collaboration: Applying Complexity Theory to Organisational Transformation


Starts Monday, June 11-15, 2012
Eve Mitleton-Kelly
This course is open for bookings.
The most successful organisations no longer operate in a top-down fashion, and benefit from
empowering their employees to work collaboratively. Yet many organisations are stuck in
hierarchical ways of operating and lack the tools to develop alternatives. This course provides a
sound theoretical and practical grounding for all those in generating a more collaborative
workplace.

Generating a more collaborative workplace


During this dynamic course you will be introduced to key principles of complexity theory and
learn how they can be applied collaboratively with the aim of co-creating a new culture,
structure and way of working within an organisation which is based on these complexity principles.

Ten principles of complexity theory


Using theoretical discussions and practical exercises, the course will look at the ten principles of complexity theory and consider examples that illustrate these
principles in real life. With your fellow participants you will discuss the process of organisational transformation as a dynamic process, involving a continuous coevolution which involves not only management but all employees.

Exploring the process of organisational transformation


By the end of the course you will become familiar with:
Key principles of Complexity Theory necessary for organisational transformation;
How to enable collaboration;
A range of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods;
Effective ways to approach apparently intractable organisational problems;
How to address your issues of interest in small group discussions.
How can leaders work with complexity to distribute leadership effectively throughout their organisations?
The course will introduce you to and evaluate a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods which can be used to apply complexity theory in different
environments. The course ends with a discussion of how insights from complexity can help to tackle apparently intractable problems.
Through the use of practical small groups you will be engaged throughout the course to explore examples of, or problems with, organisational transformation, and apply
your emerging new understanding to these case studies.
The course is essential for both for practitioners who are dissatisfied with traditional approaches to organisational change and academics who would
like to study the application of complexity theory in practice.
No previous knowledge of complexity theory is required and the course does not include any mathematics.

Teacher
Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly is Director of the Complexity Research Programme at the London School of Economics and visiting Professor at the
Open University. She was Executive Coordinator of the Society for Organisational Learning-London from 1977-2008, and has been Policy/
Scientific Advisor to European and USA organisations, the European Commission, several UK Government Departments, and 5 Governments.
Her research has concentrated on addressing apparently intractable problems in business and the public sector and the creation of enabling
environments based on complexity science. She has developed a theory of complex social systems and a methodology to address complex
social problems which is being used for teaching at universities around the world. Publications and the work of the LSE Complexity Group is at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/complexity

Related Resources
Identifying the Multi-Dimensional Problem-space & Co-creating an Enabling Environment by Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Please note: All material, including all figures, is protected by copyright and should not be reproduced without the express permission of the author.
This paper has been published in E:CO (Emergence Complexity & Organisation) in 2011 & as Chapter 2 in Moving Forward with Complexity, 2011
Edited by: Andrew Tait & Kurt A. Richardson 2011, ISBN 9780984216598, Emergent Publications.

Course Fees
750
All course fees include accommodation, food, field trips and all teaching sessions.

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