Douglas Walton
School: Organizational Leadership and Transformation
Bio:
Doug Walton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Systems from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr. Walton has over 20 years experience as a researcher, manager, and organizational change consultant in the computer industry. He is president of the International Systems Institute and did his doctoral work on the use of communications technology to facilitate evolutionary systems design in the public sphere. He is actively engaged in stewarding conscious evolution as well as teaching and writing about social systems and the impact of technology on society, particularly in the area of computer-mediated conversation. He teaches seminars on systems thinking, authentic participation, and the measurement of well-being in society.
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
- PhD, Organizational Systems, 2002, Saybrook Graduate School
- MA, Organizational Systems Inquiry, 2000, Saybrook Graduate School
- BS, Applied Economics, 1988, University of San Francisco
Current Projects and Professional Activities
I am currently working in 3 areas. I do organizational change management consulting for the IT department of Cisco Systems, and I am on the teaching faculty in Saybrook's organizational systems concentration. Additionally, I am president of the International Systems Institute, which is a non-profit that is dedicated to making systems thinking available for citizens to use in taking responsibility for cultural evolution.
Significant Publications
Walton, D. (2002). An Evolutionary Systems Model for Using the Internet to Support Democratic Inquiry Among Multiple Design Communities. Ph. D. Dissertation. UMI Proquest.
Important Conference Presentations
Research Interests
My research focues on how systems approaches can be applied to social change, particularly when enabled with modern communications technology to create large-scale collecive action. I am also interested in the systemic impacts of technological advance and cultural evolution.
Research Expertise
My research expertise is the use of systems approaches and action research to understand and change organizational systems. I have used action research, stakeholder analysis, readiness assessments, surveys, interviews, and systems modeling extensively to facilitate change in high tech organizations. I have also used grounded theory extensively.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
Helping students with systems analysis and design projects; helping students working on dialogue; helping students working on organizational change and organizational inquiry.
Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research |
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| Field Experiments |
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| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
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| Quasi-experimental methods |
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| Correlational Methods |
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Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
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| Survey Research |
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| Interview Research |
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| Observational Research |
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| Epidemiological Research |
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| Ethnography |
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| Focus Groups |
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| Self-Observational Methods |
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| Narrative Methods |
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| Feminist Methods |
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| Content Analysis |
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| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
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| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
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| Archival Research |
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| Case History Methods |
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| Appreciative Inquiry |
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| Multiple Case Depth Research |
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| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
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| Longitudinal research |
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| Cross-sectional research |
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Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
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| Hermeneutics |
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| Grounded Theory |
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| Phenomenology |
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| Heuristic Research |
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Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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