Organisations and enterprises are increasingly experienced as networked systems; work is increasingly experienced as networking. Customers and clients engage themselves with platforms for processing information and distributing goods and services which act as an ‘invisible architecture’ to the digital economy. And yet so many of our working assumptions in organisations overlook networks – much in the same way that systems remain invisible. We try to help clients to:

• find ways of ‘seeing’ the system and ‘navigating’ networks
• think about how to extend the boundary of their organisation to incorporate networks
• develop ways of understanding leadership and internal communications which work with a networked reality
• better appreciate networked inter-dependencies
• think about the design and re-design of systems and networks
• develop the capacity to lead at the intersection between hierarchies and networks

Clients who have had learning studio support for the development and design of networks and systems include:

• University of Applied Sciences, Munich, and their Coneect partnership with Aberdeen University Business School, Scientific Research Centre of Sofia University, Bulgaria, The Israeli College for Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, Israel, PEEP – Educar para Emprender, Portugal & Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany to develop entrepreneurship education programmes in Europe.
• The Health Foundation
• Birmingham City Council Children’s Services
• Department of Communities and Local Government