SOCIAL SYSTEMS DESIGN
The Agora Project: The New Agoras of the 21st Century
A metaphor for social action contexts in which people can make
collective decisions about their future.
International Systems Institute (ISI), Glossary A glossary intended to help organize and define Systems Design terms.
GROUP INQUIRY AND ACTION
Integrative Sciences
Website devoted to public information and education about Interactive Management, a
process which enables human beings to work together (in face-to-face mode)
to resolve complexity.
CWA, Ltd. and
INTERACT
Two major organizations with exceptional abilities who are each enaged
in the practice of "Interactive Management," facilitating the design
of collaborative action plans to address complex situations through
teamwork.
Virtual Teams and
Collaborative Learning Networks
Two examples of emerging electronic networking systems to facilite use
of Internet technology by people working with people collaboratively
(in many-to-many mode) across boundaries of place, which are now being
offered by high priced corporate consultants, and in book format.
KEY SYSTEMS DESIGN METHODOLOGIES
Electronic Voting Systems
A "hot list" of electronic voting systems and relevant issues
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Texas Green Party, Democracy In The Raw: Consensus Process For
Facilitated Meetings (Aug 2000)
Computer Based Delphi Process
A communications structure aimed at producing detailed critical
examination and discussion among groups in which members (from
30 to 100 individuals) are dispersed in space and time (1995).
Nominal Group Technique (NGT)
A structured workshop/meeting/process, usually facilitated by a
"third party", which identifies and ranks the major problems or
issues affecting the group. NGT has been successfully used in the
conduct of group meetings via Internet Relay Chat, described
as an
Electronic Town Hall (ETH) at various sites, August 1995,
see also
Use of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in Distributed Consensus Forming
(PDF), as reported by Professor Billy Vaughn Koen of the University
of Texas at Austin (also Dean, Graduate School of Decision Science
and Technology, The Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)
A computer assisted learning process that enables an individual or
group user to develop a structure or map showing interrelations among
previously determined elements according to a selected contextual
relationship or priority.
Architectural Tradeoff Analysis (ATA) Method
A structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent
in the architectures of software intensive systems, used as a
basis for optimizing group choice of preferred alternatives.
OTHER SYSTEMS DESIGN KNOWLEDGE & APPLICATIONS
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WIL A. H. THISSEN, ANDREW P. SAGE, JOHN N. WARFIELD, A USERS GUIDE TO PUBLIC SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY, CHARETTE METHOD (describing peer review criticism of the method) (1980)
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Vigdor Schreibman, A Technique of Democracy (Sept 2004)
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Alexander N. Christakis, Law of erroneous priorities (draft) (Jan 2000)
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Vigdor Schreibman, Speaking the New Language Patterns of Democracy (Apr 1999)
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Vigdor Schreibman, The substance of power (Amended Aug 1997)
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John N. Warfield, Systems Engineering Bibliography. A bibliography of books and papers relevant to complexity, organization, and design (August 1997)
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John Warfield, How To Design A Meeting: Context, Content, Process (August 1997)
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Alexander N. Christakis, A People Science (Dec 1996)
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Benjamin J. Broome, Overview of the Interactive Management System (May 1993)
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Benjamin J. Broome, Introduction to an Interactive Management System (May 1993)
