Links into our Community

Spaces for new thinking.

Creating virtual platforms or hosting the systems community, groups and conferences bring together people, convene discourse, allow for debates and inspire advances in systems theory and practice.

-> See the the Cybernetics and Systems Community Calendar - please click here!

Dates for 2025

RSD 14
SCiO SysPrac 2025
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10th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium in January 2026
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MASTERING CHALLENGES: Navigating the Waves of Innovation in a Tech-Driven World For more information!

Systems Thinking Network (32.538 members)
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We are a self-organizing network of, for, and by systems thinkers. From January 2018, you’re welcomed on an open platform at Systems Community of Inquiry, see https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/01/19/moving-to-stream-syscoi-com/ (incorporating model.report, moving off this walled garden). The group is a work in progress and […]

The Ecology of Systems Thinking (12.140 members)
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The Ecology of Systems Thinking is a discussion forum for systems thinking and ecology. https://www.facebook.com/groups/774241602654986/

The Illuminate SIGNAL Report: Building the Field of Systems Change
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In 40 interviews across North America and Africa, the SIGNAL Research Team asked systems leaders about the potential and the challenges of advancing systems change. DOWNLOAD

Systems Sciences Group (3.325 members)
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We are a self-organizing network of, for, and by systems scientists. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2391509563

Business Systems Laboratory – Symposia (324 members)
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The Business Systems Laboratory International Symposia aim to address the global challenges by a systemic perspective. The criticalities and the opportunities of our times are faced according to the cutting edge research and practice in the various fields of social science. This […]

Systems Sciences (523 members)
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The International Society for the Systems Sciences is devoted to interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of complex systems. Initially conceived in 1954 by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, and Anatol Rapoport, the Society for General Systems Research became the ISSS […]

Cybernetics & Systems Science (2.729 members)
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Systems Theory or Systems Science argues that however complex or diverse the world that we experience, we will always find different types of organization in it, and such organization can be described by concepts and principles which are independent from the specific […]

Any links to share?
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Please get in touch with our community curator, Sebastian Wolf, at community@ifsr.org

The official Journal of the IFSR
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Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10991743a Categories: management, policy analysis, management science, economics, behavioral sciences, computer simulation, decision analysis, organization theory, information systems, engineering, biology, environmental studies Description: Systems Research and Behavioral Science serves the international community of systems researchers and practitioners, and all those interested […]

Systemic Change Journal
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Website: systemichange.scholasticahq.com Categories: Systems Change, Systems Innovation, Systems Design Description: The Systemic Change Journal (SCJ) was founded by Kendra Rosencrans and Louis Klein in 2018. After the Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change was suspended by Taylor&Francis, they began wondering […]

IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
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Website: https://www.springer.com/series/6104?detailsPage=titles Categories: Complexity Theory, Network Theory, Hierarchy, Holarchy, and Panarchy Theories, Dynamics, Emergence and Evolution, Modelling (System Dynamics, Agent-based, Dynamical Systems, etc.), Computational Intelligence and Learning Systems, Systems Analysis and Synthesis Application Areas:, Biological & Ecological Systems, Human Social & Organization […]

Book Series: College Publications – “Systems”
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Website: http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/systems/ Categories: Systems Science, Systems Thinking, Systems and Software Engineering Description: The Systems series is a cooperative enterprise between College Publications, the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Bertalanffy Center for the […]

Systems Thinking: New Directions in Theory, Practice and Application.
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Edson, M. C., G. S. Metcalf, G. Chroust, N. C. Nguyen and S. Blachfellner, Eds. (2015). Systems Thinking: New Directions in Theory, Practice and Application. Austria, Institute for Telecooperation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; SEA-Publications: SEA-SR-41; ISBN 978-3-902457-41-7.

Systems Thinking for Everyone: The Journey from Theory to making an Impact.
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Bosch, O. J. H. and N. C. Nguyen (2015). Systems Thinking for Everyone: The Journey from Theory to making an Impact. Canberra, Australia: Think2Impact Pty Ltd; ISBN 978-0-9942356-0-2.

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Spaces for new thinking.

Creating virtual platforms or hosting the systems community, groups and conferences bring together people, convene discourse, allow for debates and inspire advances in systems theory and practice.

-> See the the Cybernetics and Systems Community Calendar - please click here!

Dates for 2025

10th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium in January 2026
–

Systems Thinking Network (32.538 members)
–

The Ecology of Systems Thinking (12.140 members)
–

The Illuminate SIGNAL Report: Building the Field of Systems Change
–

Systems Sciences Group (3.325 members)
–

Business Systems Laboratory – Symposia (324 members)
–

Systems Sciences (523 members)
–

Cybernetics & Systems Science (2.729 members)
–

Any links to share?
–

The official Journal of the IFSR
–

Systemic Change Journal
–

IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
–

Book Series: College Publications – “Systems”
–

Systems Thinking: New Directions in Theory, Practice and Application.
–

Systems Thinking for Everyone: The Journey from Theory to making an Impact.
–

Systems Change starts here

Meeting the complexity of the 21st century and the challenges of the Anthropocene makes system thinking inevitable.

Be part of the whole!

Executive Committee 2024/2026

President: Ray Ison (Australia)
Secretary General: Louis Klein (Germany)
VP: Pamela Buckle (Canada, USA)
VP: Nam Nguyen (Vietnam, Australia)
VP: Rika Preiser (South Africa)
VP: Philippe Vandenbroeck (Belgium)

Past presidents

1980: George J. Klir
1984: Robert Trappl
1988: Gerrit Broekstra
1992: Gerard de Zeeuw
1994: Bela H. Banathy
1998: Michael C. Jackson
2000: Yong Pil Rhee
2002: Jifa Gu
2006 Matjaz Mulej
2008 Matjaz Mulej
2010 Gary S. Metcalf
2012 Gary S. Metcalf
2014 Gary S. Metcalf
2016 Mary C. Edson

Fellows

Gary Metcalf
Robert Trappl
Gerhard Chroust
Mike Jackson
Gerard de Zeeuw
Jifa Gu

Spaces for new thinking.

Creating virtual platforms or hosting the systems community, groups and conferences bring together people, convene discourse, allow for debates and inspire advances in systems theory and practice.

-> See the the Cybernetics and Systems Community Calendar - please click here!

Dates for 2025

10th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium in January 2026–

Systems Thinking Network (32.538 members)–

The Ecology of Systems Thinking (12.140 members)–

The Illuminate SIGNAL Report: Building the Field of Systems Change–

Systems Sciences Group (3.325 members)–

Business Systems Laboratory – Symposia (324 members)–

Systems Sciences (523 members)–

Cybernetics & Systems Science (2.729 members)–

Any links to share?–

The official Journal of the IFSR–

Systemic Change Journal–

IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering–

Book Series: College Publications – “Systems”–

Systems Thinking: New Directions in Theory, Practice and Application.–

Systems Thinking for Everyone: The Journey from Theory to making an Impact.–

10th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium in January 2026
–

Systems Thinking Network (32.538 members)
–

The Ecology of Systems Thinking (12.140 members)
–

The Illuminate SIGNAL Report: Building the Field of Systems Change
–

Systems Sciences Group (3.325 members)
–

Business Systems Laboratory – Symposia (324 members)
–

Systems Sciences (523 members)
–

Cybernetics & Systems Science (2.729 members)
–

Any links to share?
–

The official Journal of the IFSR
–

Systemic Change Journal
–

IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
–

Book Series: College Publications – “Systems”
–

Systems Thinking: New Directions in Theory, Practice and Application.
–

Systems Thinking for Everyone: The Journey from Theory to making an Impact.
–