By Greg Fisher I was recently given two papers to read on the nature of “Multiple Exclusion Homelessness”, which is about people with multiple care needs e.g. housing, drug addiction, unemployment, etc.  The papers covered (i) Tackling homelessness and exclusion: Understanding complex lives i.e. need and (ii) Implications for Workforce Development and Interprofessional Practice i.e. […]

By Greg Fisher Recently I have spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between human values and economics & finance.  Specifically, this has been in two related areas: the types of corporate legal forms that exist (see Paul’s blog on this); and the “Social Investment market”.  In this blog I would like to […]

  By Greg Fisher Yesterday we announced that we will be hosting a set of discussions with the RSA focused on new thinking in the social sciences which is beginning to make its way in to public policy.  These new fields of research include network theory and the complexity sciences but they also include a […]

By Greg Fisher So Wikipedia is down today, voluntarily, joining other sites in a protest against anti-piracy legislation being considered by Washington.  This reflects the pain of societies transitioning from one broad “system” to something very different and it is largely due to networked computers. The point I want to stress in this blog is […]

by Mark McKergow As a management consultant, I help people make progress when things are tough.  Taking a complexity perspective helps this task enormously; an “emergent view” of the world removes the last possibilities of finally understanding – in a mechanistic way – how the world works.  Instead, this perspective points the way to a […]