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1. Concept Mapping
for Complexity Management
Lawrie Hunter
Editor/mentor, GRIPS
http://lawriehunter.com
cpc_editor@grips.ac.jp hunterlawrie@gmail.com

2. No need to take notes:
This powerpoint
(and many more)
can be found at:
slideshare.net/rolenzo/presentations

3. Concept Mapping
for Complexity Management
To be knowledgeable in some area
is to understand the interrelationships among
the important concepts in that domain.
Goldsmith, T. E., Johnson, P. J., & Acton, W. H. (1991). Assessing structural
knowledge. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(1), 88–96.

4. The research experience:

5. The research experience:

6. Complexity work: example 1
Abstract
The internationalisation of currencies is a topic that has received substantial attention
following the recent inclusion of the currency X in the International Monetary Fund’s Special
Drawing Rights. Although currency internationalisation is fundamentally an outward-oriented
policy goal, there is a tendency to link it exclusively to capital account liberalisation and
domestic financial deregulation; this has shifted debate on the subject in a more inward-
oriented direction.
The present paper seeks to reconcile these two perspectives by demonstrating how currency
internationalisation hinges critically on international liquidity provision. Proceeding on the
assumption that international currencies, both as a matter of historical experience and
macroeconomic logic, are associated with current account deficits, the argument is made here
that international liquidity provision depends crucially on economic structural and
international institutional conditions.
This paper demonstrates how an economy’s position within the international monetary system
and regional supply chains shapes its development path and mode of production, which in
turn become important determinants of its currency’s international profile. Then the historical
experience of the Japanese yen is applied to the case of internationalisation of currency X, and
the resulting analysis suggests that internal rebalancing towards greater domestic
consumption and external rebalancing towards higher imports will be required if the
international role of currency X is to expand.

7. Complexity work: example 1

8. Complexity work: example 1
Can you see the structure?
Abstract
The internationalisation of currencies is a topic that has received substantial attention
following the recent inclusion of the currency X in the International Monetary Fund’s
Special Drawing Rights. Although currency internationalisation is fundamentally an
outward-oriented policy goal, there is a tendency to link it exclusively to capital account
liberalisation and domestic financial deregulation; this has shifted debate on the subject
in a more inward-oriented direction.
The present paper seeks to reconcile these two perspectives by demonstrating how
currency internationalisation hinges critically on international liquidity provision.
Proceeding on the assumption that international currencies, both as a matter of historical
experience and macroeconomic logic, are associated with current account deficits, the
argument is made here that international liquidity provision depends crucially on
economic structural and international institutional conditions.
This paper demonstrates how an economy’s position within the international monetary
system and regional supply chains shapes its development path and mode of production,
which in turn become important determinants of its currency’s international profile. Then
the historical experience of the Japanese yen is applied to the case of internationalisation
of currency X, and the resulting analysis suggests that internal rebalancing towards
greater domestic consumption and external rebalancing towards higher imports will be
required if the international role of currency X is to expand.

9. Complexity work: example 2
Before

10. Complexity work: example 2
After

11. Map example: abstract

12. http://cmap.ihmc.us/
Default Novakian tool: Cmaps

13. Demo: the mapping process

14. Concept mapping process
1. Input the text into your wetware
2. Identify all the main concepts
3. Identify the core concepts
(<12)
4. Arrange the concepts as a cmap
(max 12, top-down, dyads)
5. Identify relations between dyads
6. Incubate, reconfirm.

15. Concept mapping process
1. Input the text into your wetware
2. Identify all the main concepts
3. Identify the core concepts (<12)
4. Arrange the concepts as a cmap
(max 12, top-down, dyads)
5. Identify relations between dyads
6. Incubate, reconfirm.

16. Concept mapping process
1. Input the text into your wetware
2. Identify all the main concepts
3. Identify the core concepts (<12)
4. Arrange the concepts as a cmap
(max 12, top-down, dyads)
5. Identify relations between dyads
6. Incubate, reconfirm.

17. Concept mapping process

18. Concept mapping process
let your
subconscious
mind
process it
let it sit
for a while
later
check the
links and the
top-down
arrangement show it to
your friends
(everyone’s
an expert)
INCUBATE
IT
1. Input the text into your wetware
2. Identify all the main concepts
3. Identify the core concepts (<12)
4. Arrange the concepts as a cmap
(max 12, top-down, dyads)
5. Identify relations between dyads
6. Incubate, reconfirm.

19. Today’s task:
mapping a text

20. Concept mapping process
1. Input the text into your wetware
2. Identify all the main concepts
3. Identify all the core concepts
4. Arrange the concepts as a cmap
(max 12, top-down)
5. Identify relations between dyads*
6. Incubate, reconfirm.
*dyad = two concepts and the relationship between them

21. Mapping: finding structure in a text
Step 1: underline the key concepts in the text:
Human capital is a key resource of the state enterprise: capable
agents are necessary for the production of public goods and
raising of the revenue to finance them. Optimizing public sector
hiring requires identification of desired candidate qualities, and
means of attracting individuals with those qualities to work in the
public sector. In this study we elucidate the desired candidate
qualities and evaluate the effectiveness of common incentives in
attracting candidates with those qualities to work in the public
sector.
[The above text is Hunter’s refinement of part of the abstract in
STRENGTHENING STATE CAPABILITIES: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES IN THE CALL TO PUBLIC SERVICE
The Quarterly Journal of Economics Advance Access published May 22, 2013
Ernesto Dal Bo, Frederico Finan, Martin A. Rossi ]

22. Mapping: finding structure in a text
Step 2: Find the structure signal words in the text:
Human capital is a key resource of the state enterprise: capable
agents are necessary for the production of public goods and
raising of the revenue to finance them. Optimizing public sector
hiring requires identification of desired candidate qualities, and
means of attracting individuals with those qualities to work in the
public sector. In this study we elucidate the desired candidate
qualities and evaluate the effectiveness of common incentives in
attracting candidates with those qualities to work in the public
sector.
[The above text is Hunter’s refinement of part of the abstract in
STRENGTHENING STATE CAPABILITIES: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES IN THE CALL TO PUBLIC SERVICE
The Quarterly Journal of Economics Advance Access published May 22, 2013
Ernesto Dal Bo, Frederico Finan, Martin A. Rossi ]

23. Mapping a text:
1. choose key concepts
2. constrain (fewer than 12 nodes)
3. arrange and link
- argument: top-down order
- sequence: left-right order
4. name the link relations

24. That’s it!
Now it’s up to you… with help.
Please share your maps with Hunter.
https://lawriehunter.com
hunterlawrie@gmail.com
slideshare.net/rolenzo/presentations

25. Map
typology
by function
Novakian map
typology
by
link type