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 ix
... Central Elements of the Framework How the Elements Form a Coherent Framework What a User of the Framework Asks What a User of the Framework Can Do What May Come of This Approach References Index 128 128 131 136 143 145 146 147 148 152 ...
... Central Elements of the Framework How the Elements Form a Coherent Framework What a User of the Framework Asks What a User of the Framework Can Do What May Come of This Approach References Index 128 128 131 136 143 145 146 147 148 152 ...
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... central chapters: Variation, Interaction, and Selection. We see variation, interaction, and selection as interlocking sets of concepts that can generate productive actions in a world that cannot be fully understood. We show how the very ...
... central chapters: Variation, Interaction, and Selection. We see variation, interaction, and selection as interlocking sets of concepts that can generate productive actions in a world that cannot be fully understood. We show how the very ...
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... central ideas that have guided our development of the framework. They are: • the difficulty of prediction in complex settings, • how related themes of complexity have arisen in the physical, biological, and social sciences, • how ...
... central ideas that have guided our development of the framework. They are: • the difficulty of prediction in complex settings, • how related themes of complexity have arisen in the physical, biological, and social sciences, • how ...
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... central interest of ours is how strategies change over time. One source of change is the agent's experience of how well the strategy is doing. An employee, finding that co-workers are not contributing to a joint project, might decide ...
... central interest of ours is how strategies change over time. One source of change is the agent's experience of how well the strategy is doing. An employee, finding that co-workers are not contributing to a joint project, might decide ...
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... central that we sometimes refer to our framework as the “population approach to Complex Adaptive Systems.” If you are seeking to harness complexity, populations are important in three ways: as a source of possibilities to learn from, as ...
... central that we sometimes refer to our framework as the “population approach to Complex Adaptive Systems.” If you are seeking to harness complexity, populations are important in three ways: as a source of possibilities to learn from, as ...
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