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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... called complexity. For these readers we provide a nontechnical introduction to the field. Other readers may have more specific interests in how to design social systems, or in how to make better policy for existing social systems. For ...
... called complexity. For these readers we provide a nontechnical introduction to the field. Other readers may have more specific interests in how to design social systems, or in how to make better policy for existing social systems. For ...
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... called Web pages?” This book is about designing organizations and strategies in complex settings, where the full consequences of actions may be hard— even impossible—to predict. It draws together ideas from scientific research done in ...
... called Web pages?” This book is about designing organizations and strategies in complex settings, where the full consequences of actions may be hard— even impossible—to predict. It draws together ideas from scientific research done in ...
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... called Grameen banking, after the Bangla word for “village.” The idea is so effective that 97 percent of loans are repaid, which is comparable to Chase Manhattan's rate. Today there are over a thousand branch offices, serving more than ...
... called Grameen banking, after the Bangla word for “village.” The idea is so effective that 97 percent of loans are repaid, which is comparable to Chase Manhattan's rate. Today there are over a thousand branch offices, serving more than ...
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... called emergent properties, which are properties of the system that the separate parts do not have. For example, no single neuron has consciousness, but the human brain does have consciousness as an emergent property. Likewise, a ...
... called emergent properties, which are properties of the system that the separate parts do not have. For example, no single neuron has consciousness, but the human brain does have consciousness as an emergent property. Likewise, a ...
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... called complex when it is hard to predict not because it is random but rather because the regularities it does have cannot be briefly described. This distinguishes complexity from randomness, and it aligns with our focus on difficulty ...
... called complex when it is hard to predict not because it is random but rather because the regularities it does have cannot be briefly described. This distinguishes complexity from randomness, and it aligns with our focus on difficulty ...
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