Special Integration Group -- 
Systems Applications to Business and Industry

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Toronto 2000 

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Asilomar 1999 

SIG Chair:  Enrique Herrscher

43rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Systems Sciences, at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, June 26 to July 2, 1999

Wednesday, June 30, 1999 (1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)

Symposium 1 [notes by Arteaga] [notes by Simmonds]

• David L. Hawk and Minna Takala, "A 21st Century Challenge to Corporate Values: From Functional Success to Context as Everything" [abstract]
• Elizabeth White, "The Wang and Texas Instruments Cases: A 2nd Order Cybernetic View of the Corporation as a Complex Dynamic System, Utilizing a General Evolutionary Systems Model" [abstract]
• David Ing and Ian Simmonds,  "Designing Natural Tension into the Structure of Adaptive Enterprises -- "Context and Coordination" in the Sense & Respond Organization" [abstract]

Wednesday, June 30, 1999 (3:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.)

Symposium 2 [notes by Ing] [notes by Simmonds]

• General discussion of conclusions from Symposium 1

Thursday, July 1, 1999 (1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.)

Paper Session

• Eduardo Oliva-López, Jorge A. Rojas-Ramírez and Edith R. Silva-Mendoza, "Egocentric Management: An Organisational Disease Preventing Good Communication and Wellbeing" [notes by Ing] [notes by Simmonds]
• Yoshihide Horiuchi, "Proposal of Virtual Transportation Industry: Idealization of Transportation Systems with Social Systems Navigation" [notes by Ing] [notes by Simmonds]
• Allenna Leonard, "A Systems Approach to Audit Enquiry" [notes by Ing] [notes by Simmonds]
• Brian Hilton, "Defense Industry in the U.K." [notes by Ing] [notes by Simmonds]
• A. von-Siegler-Guardado and Eduardo Oliva-Lopez, "Transcedental Engineering:  A Systemic Approach to Interorganizational Design and Manufacture" [notes by Ing] [notes by Simmonds]
• Closing Discussion [notes by Simmonds]