Host Riccardo Cosentino explores untapped knowledge in project management, drawing from his Oxford insights. This episode of Navigating Major Programmes delves into integrating social sciences and complex adaptive systems, addressing how minor changes can lead to significant impacts due to project complexity. Join Riccardo as he navigates through the complexities of project management, offering innovative solutions to embrace and manage these challenges effectively in a new mini series: The Science of Complexity. Could your approach to project management be outdated?

"I am convinced that, although we have achieved many incredible things already as project leaders and managers, there's something missing, something that's already out there in the world's knowledge that we're not using well enough." – Riccardo Cosentino

 

Steps for improving the management and understanding of complex, large-scale infrastructure projects:

  • Step one: Social sciences and complex adaptive systems.
  • Step two: Systems thinking.
  • Step three: A Betagon chart.
  • Step four: Finding a success criterion.
  • Step five: Network graphs.
  • Step six: Higher level network graphs.
  • Step seven: Digital twins.
  • Step eight: The Incerto.
  • Step nine: Digital twins.
  • Step ten: Composable systems.
  • Step eleven: Semantics and Ontologies

 

Mentioned Links:  

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Recommended Reading)

How Understanding Systems Thinking Changed My Career (Riccardo’s LinkedIn Article)

Organizing for Work (Recommended Reading) 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Published Works (Recommended Incerto Reading)

Digital Construction Ontologies 
 

 

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