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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... better policy for existing social systems. For these readers we draw on a wide range of applications from business, political, and cultural settings. We make no assumptions about the backgrounds of our readers, except that they are ...
... better policy for existing social systems. For these readers we draw on a wide range of applications from business, political, and cultural settings. We make no assumptions about the backgrounds of our readers, except that they are ...
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... better understand how complex systems can be built and analyzed. For valuable advice (not always followed) we would like to thank David Axelrod, Arthur Burks, Corinne Cohen, Rachel Cohen, Paula Duffy, Edmund Durfee, George Furnas, John ...
... better understand how complex systems can be built and analyzed. For valuable advice (not always followed) we would like to thank David Axelrod, Arthur Burks, Corinne Cohen, Rachel Cohen, Paula Duffy, Edmund Durfee, George Furnas, John ...
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... better ways to produce a product. Each change of strategy by a worker alters the context in which the next change will be tried and evaluated. When multiple populations of agents are adapting to each other, the result is a ...
... better ways to produce a product. Each change of strategy by a worker alters the context in which the next change will be tried and evaluated. When multiple populations of agents are adapting to each other, the result is a ...
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... better their lot, the company employees are looking for ways to cooperate, the computerized agents in an electronic market modify their strategies in ways predicted to improve their trading profits. These changes may or may not produce ...
... better their lot, the company employees are looking for ways to cooperate, the computerized agents in an electronic market modify their strategies in ways predicted to improve their trading profits. These changes may or may not produce ...
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... better monitoring and support. Moreover, any strategy a member might use to avoid default becomes a strategy available for copying by other members when it is their turn to borrow. Likewise, any strategy a member uses to monitor or ...
... better monitoring and support. Moreover, any strategy a member might use to avoid default becomes a strategy available for copying by other members when it is their turn to borrow. Likewise, any strategy a member uses to monitor or ...
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