Harnessing ComplexityBasic Books, 01/08/2008 - 208 من الصفحات Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive System-whether in science, public policy, or private commerce. This simple model of how people work together will change forever how we think about getting things done in a group. "Harnessing Complexity distills the managerial essence of current research on complexity. "A very valuable contribution to the emerging theory of competition and competitive advantage."-C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan, coauthor of Competing for the Future "A brilliant exposition that demystifies both the theory and use of Complex Adaptive Systems."-John Seely Brown, Xerox Corporation and Palo Alto Research Center |
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الصفحة xi
... actions should you take? We call such worlds Complex Adaptive Systems. In Complex Adaptive Systems there are often many participants, perhaps even many kinds of participants. They interact in intricate ways that continually reshape ...
... actions should you take? We call such worlds Complex Adaptive Systems. In Complex Adaptive Systems there are often many participants, perhaps even many kinds of participants. They interact in intricate ways that continually reshape ...
الصفحة xii
... action seems best, it usually pays to maintain variety among the actions you take so that you can continue to learn and adapt. The purpose of this book is to help managers and policy makers harness complexity. We address a variety of ...
... action seems best, it usually pays to maintain variety among the actions you take so that you can continue to learn and adapt. The purpose of this book is to help managers and policy makers harness complexity. We address a variety of ...
الصفحة xv
... actions in a world that cannot be fully understood. We show how the very complexity that makes the world hard to understand provides opportunities and resources for improvement over time. We are often asked how “complexity” differs from ...
... actions in a world that cannot be fully understood. We show how the very complexity that makes the world hard to understand provides opportunities and resources for improvement over time. We are often asked how “complexity” differs from ...
الصفحة xvii
... action we take is partly an instrumental step and partly a learning experience. From John Holland we learned how adaptation can be regarded as an engineering problem. His inventions, starting with the genetic algorithm (Holland, 1975) ...
... action we take is partly an instrumental step and partly a learning experience. From John Holland we learned how adaptation can be regarded as an engineering problem. His inventions, starting with the genetic algorithm (Holland, 1975) ...
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... action. They may be as simple as a paper form for recording the hours spent on a team project, or as sophisticated ... actions are possible and what consequences they will likely produce. When we do, we can choose the action that seems ...
... action. They may be as simple as a paper form for recording the hours spent on a team project, or as sophisticated ... actions are possible and what consequences they will likely produce. When we do, we can choose the action that seems ...
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