Si London Hub

Hi all 👋 we are back to share some updates from the Si London Hub and what we are currently working on - In the past months we have been working on trying to shift our hub to be a platform for supporting the development of the UK ecosystem for systems innovation and having produced a position paper on this we did an open event mapping the ecosystems. - We have been also working to connect better with local universities and innovation agencies through running workshops and events with them, including two workshops for the Royal College of the Arts and an upcoming presentation and workshop for one of the Digital Catapult (a national innovation agency). - We hosted a hybrid event playing the system design game with a small group in-person and a large group online in Nov. - Our main focus at present is organizing a one-day in-person conference in collaboration with the governance hub on public sector systems innovation in London on Feb 14th. - We also plan to host an open info session for members andthe extended team within a couple of months to create a spect to better connect with you all. That's all for now, hope you have a great break and see you next year...

We are really looking forward to hosting our first conference in London in just under two months focusing on systems innovation in the public sector in collaboration with Si London Hub. The lineup of speakers is taking shape, take a look at this slide to see who is coming. You can find full event info and booking here: https://lnkd.in/ezzistvx Mariell Juhlin Isaac Reilly Toby Lowe Rowan Conway Maarten Lens-FitzGerald Joss Colchester Florian Schwendinger Benjamin P. Taylor Karen den Hertog Louis Klein Dr Rachel Lilley John Mortimer Tim Hobbs About the event: Systems Innovation Public Sector Conference will be a unique in-person one-day gathering for systems thinkers, innovators, and change-makers in the public sector taking place in London on Feb 14th.     Through a combination of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and open spaces hosted by people working on systems innovation in the public sector, the event offers the opportunity to connect, discuss, and learn about the state of systems innovation in government today. Who should join     The conference is for anyone working in or around government at all levels from local to national to international and across all departments for you to learn about a new set of ideas and approaches for tackling wicked challenges, while also making valuable new connections.     This event is hosted by the Si Governance and London hub as we believe these "systems approach" now offer huge potential for really changing the way we do things in the public sector at a scale relevant to the most significant challenges we face as civil servants.

Here's what were are currently working on behind the since in the Si London Hub in collaboration with the Si Governance Hub. It's quite exciting, we will be bringing together systems thinkers, innovators, and change-makers in the public sector across the UK for a unique in-person one-day gathering happening in London on Feb 14th. Full info and RSVP open here: https://lnkd.in/gg3Ja275 The conference is for anyone working in or around government at all levels from local to national to international and across all departments for you to learn about a new set of ideas and approaches for tackling wicked challenges, while also making valuable new connections.   This event is hosted by the Si Governance and London hub as we believe these "systems approach" now offer huge potential for really changing the way we do things in the public sector at a scale relevant to the most significant challenges we face as civil servants.

Interested in systems innovation means for cities? Here's a panel we hosted with our hub to explore that very topic: https://lnkd.in/ekfAbriG During the event, we heard from three speakers from Bristol, Paris, and London talking about what system thinking approaches mean in their context. Cities are complex systems whose success is dependent upon the interaction between many parts, social, technological, environmental, and economic. However, we are often inclined to divide them up into parts and departments. We focus on optimizing those specific areas while losing sight of the connections between them, the interdependencies, the networks, and indeed the whole, which is required to deliver a good quality of life. Our modern reductionist approach to the management and development of cities has got us to where we are today and is very good when dealing with simpler or complicated challenges - building motorways or apartment blocks - but it is limited when it comes to dealing with complex challenges; indeed the term wicked problem that describes such complex issues derives from urban planning. Such issues as migration and multicultural integration, the challenges cities will face due to climate change, or working to shift a disadvantaged community to a thriving one can all be recognized to be systemic and complex in nature. Systems thinking approaches offer us a fresh perspective on the city as a system of systems, to better understand the complexity of these issues, to work with networks and more decentralized approaches of self-organization. Beyond just a new perspective, systems innovation offers many new methods, tools, and templates for bringing people together in new ways to innovate on a systems-level; which can be vital for enabling people and communities to co-create responses to the key challenges they face. During this 90-min event as part of our Si Cities theme, we will be exploring what systems innovation ideas mean for cities. During the event, we will give a 30 min presentation introducing you to systems thinking for cities. We will give two examples of cities that have taken a systems innovation approach to the challenge of violent crime in and water management in Glasgow and Mexico city respectively.

Our conference on systems thinking in the public sector is coming together nicely - pleased to share with you some of the first confirmed speakers, Including Benjamin P. Taylor Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, Mariell Juhlin, Louis Klein, John Mortimer, Karen den Hertog ... more to come soon. Full info and RSVP open here: https://lnkd.in/ejTiqkdV

Just published at Si this article on "how to do actor mapping". In this post, we share a method for building an actor map relatively simply. This approach is particularly well designed for doing participatory mapping, meaning we will have a group of people co-create the map while having a valuable outcome. Find the article here: https://lnkd.in/gppJNJAM Guide and course to actor mapping here: https://lnkd.in/eaTQAEyC

The UK Government Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs' Systems Research Programme, launched in 2019, has been applying systems methods across the organisation to support complex decision making. The outcomes of the programme have revealed the many benefits of applying systems approaches to Defra’s work. These include: - facilitating policy join-up - mitigating negative unintended consequences of policy decisions - enhancing the robustness of Defra policy Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eycB_hPw Si Governance Hub

What would it take to create a true ecosystem for systems-level innovation in the UK? That's the question we asked in our recently published guide to the "State of Systems Innovation In the UK" This graphic illustrates the many different areas we need to develop the capacity for systems thinking and systems change around - and of course, interconnect them to get an effective innovation ecosystem. You can find the full paper on our site here: https://lnkd.in/eenbgyfM

How do systems change? In this presentation Frank Geels the transition in the UK mobility system to personal automotive dominance:  https://lnkd.in/eu8wwWWe

With complexity change is not top-down nor bottom-up, it is both at the same time, and every level in between, from the micro to the meso and macro. It is not "unfreeze, change, refreeze" it is permanent and we have to learn to surf it.