The Feb. Meeting of the Creativity Consortium, an international club for
lateral thinkers will take place on Wed February 26, at 6:45 pm at the
Design Exchange, 234 Bay St.Toronto, just south of King, in the Boardroom.
Discount parking is available for Creativity Consortium members and guests
in TD Center, Ernst and Young tower-enter off Wellington St.
Become and "Systems Thinker" and get the big picture !
Our guest speaker is Dr. Allenna Leonard. She will introduce the topic of
Systems thinking, management cybernetics and Beer's Viable Systems Model.
In the second part of the meeting, guided by a panel of practitioners,
participants will practice developing feedback system diagrams for their
organizations.
Allenna Leonard, Ph.D. divides her time between consultancy and research
performed independently and as a partner with Stafford Beer in The
Complementary Set and roles as a workshop presenter, lecturer and
facilitator. She is also a director of Team Syntegrity, which develops
and delivers the non-hierarchical, interconnected three and a half to
five day meeting protocol invented by Stafford Beer called Team Syntegrity.
She has written several articles based on her work with Beer's Viable
System Model in association with quality efforts, socio-technical systems
and other models in the management cybernetics field.
Cost: $20 for members, $30 for guests, $15 for full-time students (with
ID), 1996 annual membership is $50.
If you don't live in or near Toronto, consider a virtual membership to the
Creativity Consortium: see
http://itrc.on.ca/CreativityConsortium/
For information and reservations call (416) 588-1122
The Creativity Consortium meets on the last Wednesday of each month.
Future Speakers / Creative Thinkers:
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Mar.26, 1997 Geoff Lloyd, Chair Innovation, University of Wales
Apr 30, 1997 Scott Drew, School of Business, McMaster University
Walter Derzko
Founder Creativity Consortium
The international Club/network for lateral thinkers
wd@itrc.on.ca
(416) 588-1122
http://itrc.on.ca/CreativityConsortium/
116 Galley Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6R 1H1
Canada