How can systems and cybernetics address the issues arising from an increasingly complex world, that often is beyond our traditional response capabilities? The author argues that to address such complexity we require imaginative propositions and innovative behaviours to see and address the...

This thesis offers a methodology to study and design effective communication mechanisms in human activities. The methodology is focused in the management of complexity. It is argued that complexity is not something objective that can be worked out analytically, but something subjective that...

This paper is focused on the financial crisis of 2008. It discusses the consequences of not weaving financial and economic activities into one organisational system constituted by cohesive and inclusive autonomous systems. Financial activities should be services enabling and regulating economic...

Human aspects of managing systems -- Sustainability and the anthropocene -- Smartness and big data -- Democracy, transparency, and social dynamics -- Interactions revolution -- Knowledge and organisation -- Systems thinking and system dynamics -- Quantum modelling -- Reflexivity, second order...

This is an article about effective participation in organizations. It offers insights about the interplay between individual action and organization structure. It is argued that our actions produce these structures at the same time that these structures create the space for our actions in a...