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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... 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 128 128 131 136 143 145 146 147 148 152 152 153 ...
... 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 128 128 131 136 143 145 146 147 148 152 152 153 ...
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... generally pack all of these elements up into the term system. We will use the word to indicate one or more populations of agents (for example, employees and customers of the company), all the strategies of 6 Harnessing Complexity.
... generally pack all of these elements up into the term system. We will use the word to indicate one or more populations of agents (for example, employees and customers of the company), all the strategies of 6 Harnessing Complexity.
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... elements, so that current events heavily influence the probabilities of many kinds of later events. A major way in which complex systems change is through change in the agents and their strategies. We saw earlier that there are many ...
... elements, so that current events heavily influence the probabilities of many kinds of later events. A major way in which complex systems change is through change in the agents and their strategies. We saw earlier that there are many ...
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... elements. These changes alter the population of software agents, and over time the agent programs in the population become better able to solve the problem at hand. Striking results have been achieved using this technique for problems ...
... elements. These changes alter the population of software agents, and over time the agent programs in the population become better able to solve the problem at hand. Striking results have been achieved using this technique for problems ...
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... elements (Gardner, 1970). For us, “complexity” does not simply denote “many moving parts.” Instead, complexity indicates that the system consists of parts which interact in ways that heavily influence the probabilities of later events ...
... elements (Gardner, 1970). For us, “complexity” does not simply denote “many moving parts.” Instead, complexity indicates that the system consists of parts which interact in ways that heavily influence the probabilities of later events ...
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