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05 Aug

Posted at 11:21h in Articles

Would it help me follow developments in SML if I was on the Internet? A question I have been asked by a number of CSML Network members - a few basics terms first: What is the Internet? A co-operative collection of computer networks belonging to academia and business. Who controls it? No-one. It functions entirely by consensus. It changes by any of its users suggesting different ways of...

01 Jun

Posted at 11:08h in News

Some of you may already know that we have a long standing link in the USA with Roger Harrison, including the book that Graham Dawes is editing with Roger. A new link was agreed in March when Linda Honold of Empowerment Systems (of Wisconsin) visited Britain. Linda pioneered radical developments in 'self managed working' when she was at Johnsonville Foods. This company has been described...

01 Jun

Posted at 11:06h in Articles

In March, our Hungarian partner Magda Csath launched a radical new development programme for the Raba Company. The company is a 99 year-old business making trucks, motors, axles and other vehicle components. It is having to deal with the privatisation policies in Hungary as well as a highly competitive, global market within which it has to operate. This led the company to identify the need...

01 Feb

Posted at 12:20h in Articles

At the last meeting of the group that has been involved in forming the Centre's Network, we experimented with using an approach to 'dialogue' in order to further our understanding of 'self managing'. I have now developed this a bit under the label of 'Purposive Structured Dialogue' - not just to have a fancy label, but because I want to develop something different from the Bohm/Senge model of dialogue that is becoming popular. (Anyone wanting more information on the Bohm/Senge approach can get some ideas from Senge's 'The Fifth Discipline'). [member] Part of the interest in 'dialogue' has come from former set...