She is the Director and initiator of the Complexity and
Organisational Learning Research Programme at the London School of
Economics, UK (http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse/complex);
Director and Executive Co-ordinator of SOL-UK (London), which is the
London group of the global 'Society for Organisational Learning' network
(http://sol-uk.org). She also has a BA in philosophy and MSc in
Information Systems.
The focus of her research has been the strategy process in the business
and information systems domains, with over 90 companies in the UK and
USA. Her recent work has concentrated on the implications of the
theories of complexity for IT legacy systems, organisational learning
and the emergence of organisational 'forms' and has developed a
methodology for identifying conditions that enable and constrain those
processes. She has been an Advisory Board Member on Complexity to
Citibank, New York, 1997-8; Adviser to the Czechoslovakian Ministry of
Education, 1988; and leads Complexity Thinking Workshops for senior
teams in the World Bank (Washington DC), Shell UK, Glaxo-Wellcome UK,
BT, Citibank (New York), and several major organisations in the
Aerospace industry. She has written extensively on complex social
systems and on the application of the theory in practice.
Her first career between 1967-83, was with the British Civil Service in
the Department of Trade and Industry, where she was involved in the
formulation of policy and the negotiation of EU Directives. |
