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IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER
APRIL 13, 2012
Design Principles for Complex, Unpredictable, People Oriented Systems
But, they do not work so well when dealing with highly complex systems with fast changing, interacting components, where it is much less clear what is going on in the present, let alone how things will evolve into the future.  What do we mean by applying design principles to complex, unpredictable, people oriented systems and problems? 
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IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER
JULY 2, 2009
Smart Cities as Systems of Systems
He then proceeded to articulate the two key reasons for focusing on cities, one centered on people, the other on technology and systems. are increasingly the central arena for success or failure. ” “And a city is a system - indeed, a city is a complex system of systems.  Why cities?”, Which means that cities.
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IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER
JANUARY 2, 2012
Scale and Complex Systemic Innovation
Large enterprises are typically thought of as hidebound defenders of the status quo, dominating by market power and brute force rather than technological and innovative prowess.Yet reality is far more complicated than this simple small versus big distinction. So, which is it?  They require the formation of large-scale innovation ecosystems. 
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DOC SEARLS
APRIL 29, 2013
Identity systems, failing to communicate
When I was a kid, my mother taught in the same school system, and had access to my text scores. What’s f *d up about identity is that every site and service has its own identity system. Every system has its own namespaces, and getting different systems’ namespaces to work together is very very hard.
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IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER
MAY 16, 2012
Complex Sociotechnical Systems: the Case for a New Field of Study
Digital technologies are enabling us to develop systems with huge numbers of interconnected components and sophisticated software that infuses them with seemingly unlimited capabilities.  But, we have much to learn on how to best design and operate these systems.  We are not just passive observers.  Let me discuss a few.  .
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IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER
OCTOBER 29, 2010
The MIT Systems Thinking Conference
I recently participated in MIT’s 2010 Systems Thinking Conference for Contemporary Challenges.  This annual conference is sponsored by Systems Design and Management (SDM) - an interdisciplinary program between MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management.  Political leaders blame recession on corporate fraud or terrorism. 
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