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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... considering how complexity provides a profoundly different way of thinking about social systems compared with the more ... consider these situations: • A member of a work team wants to elicit cooperation from coworkers to get a job done ...
... considering how complexity provides a profoundly different way of thinking about social systems compared with the more ... consider these situations: • A member of a work team wants to elicit cooperation from coworkers to get a job done ...
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... Considering this broad definition, we can see that a person is not the only kind of agent. A family, a business, or an entire country can also be an agent. Even a computer program interacting with other programs can be regarded as an ...
... Considering this broad definition, we can see that a person is not the only kind of agent. A family, a business, or an entire country can also be an agent. Even a computer program interacting with other programs can be regarded as an ...
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... considering interventions in a system. But what might make a system we are interested in complex? This is a question to which we will be returning, but let us begin by saying that a system is complex when there are strong interactions ...
... considering interventions in a system. But what might make a system we are interested in complex? This is a question to which we will be returning, but let us begin by saying that a system is complex when there are strong interactions ...
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... consider the role of complexity in prediction difficulty, and the ideas from complexity research that can be applied in response. What makes prediction especially difficult in these settings is that the forces shaping the future do not ...
... consider the role of complexity in prediction difficulty, and the ideas from complexity research that can be applied in response. What makes prediction especially difficult in these settings is that the forces shaping the future do not ...
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... considering. We may take the perspective of someone within a system—for example, as one of many people at a committee table. Alternatively, we may contemplate the system from the outside, as an architect or a legislator might do. In ...
... considering. We may take the perspective of someone within a system—for example, as one of many people at a committee table. Alternatively, we may contemplate the system from the outside, as an architect or a legislator might do. In ...
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