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SEgroup Library | Papers
In this section you will find papers and abstracts which Systemic Excellence Group’s members have submitted to scientific conferences or written for other purposes. You can either read short abstracts of the papers or an extensive version is available, if no further publication is intended.

Competitive social design - The social question of the next society

Louis Klein

The paper addresses the emergence of the new society, which is fostered by modern computing tools and calls for renegotiation of existing culture forms. The paper suggests that social design and design-centered thinking can be a way of responding to the challenges of the new society and shaping its social discourse. The competitiveness of social designs is becoming a crucial issue for the next society.

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Dubai: How to Build the Babylonian Tower Properly?

Jan Lachenmayer

This paper explores cross-cultural complex project management with the objective of fostering a discourse on this topic. This study is conceptualized as an explorative interview analysis and presents the findings as a distilled and developed general framework, mapping culture. The focus is on exploring how managers, professionals, executives, and experts describe and manage their cross-cultural complex reality, presenting these propositions in the context of Dubai.
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Alpha Change

Fabian Hoffmann & Louis Klein

Cultural change is increasingly recognised as a vital success factor for sustainable change. Alpha Change is a holistic approach, which allows sustainable cultural change as it generates awareness for aspects of cultural change namely; understanding change, understanding culture and understanding cultural change management based on the framework of the cultural triangle.

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Projects as difference - towards a next practice of complex project management

Markus Koerner & Louis Klein

‘Projects fail on the people side'. This is a case for action for the improvement of project management performance. Markus Koerner and Dr Louis Klein explore the possibilities to improve project management practice in reference to social systems thinking in terms of Niklas Luhmann's theory. ‘Project as a difference' was a paper presented during the 22nd International Project Management Association world conference in 2008.
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Bridging Social Science and Political Practice

Jan Lachenmayer

Political Process Advising overcomes the communication barriers between science and political systems by mediating the diverging semantics and logics.
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From Applied Narratives to SI

Alexander Kiehne & Louis Klein

The Systemic Inquiry process enables to draw organisational attention to subjects that matter over a long period of time. It provides organisational reflection and important information for further development action.
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Pop Management

Alexander Kiehne & Louis Klein

The paper argues that with popular management literature something has been done very well. It can be considered to be a tool of qualified self-observation for the reader.
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The Next 11 - Emerging co-operation and co-creation partners

Fabian Hoffmann

The SEgroup's contribution to the recent discourse on the "next emerging markets" focuses on the relevance of co-operation and co-creation. It sheds light on the Next 11 countries in terms of management practices, culture, politics, as well as economy and technology.
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Being a Postmodern Organisation

Alexander Kiehne & Louis Klein

The challenges of post-modernity now have reached the organisation: the provision of meaning, sense and orientation, as well as for the employees as for the organisation itself.
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Mastering the Organisational Demon

Alexander Kiehne & Louis Klein

A lack of self-awareness is the gate for demons to enter organisations. Organisational Mastery as a first step on the path towards Organisational Excellence closes that entrance.
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