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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... experience. From John Holland we learned how adaptation can be regarded as an engineering problem. His inventions, starting with the genetic algorithm (Holland, 1975), provided a systematic way to design and study Complex Adaptive ...
... experience. From John Holland we learned how adaptation can be regarded as an engineering problem. His inventions, starting with the genetic algorithm (Holland, 1975), provided a systematic way to design and study Complex Adaptive ...
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... experience of how well the strategy is doing. An employee, finding that co-workers are not contributing to a joint project, might decide not to contribute either. Typically, human agents have some awareness of their own strategies, and ...
... experience of how well the strategy is doing. An employee, finding that co-workers are not contributing to a joint project, might decide not to contribute either. Typically, human agents have some awareness of their own strategies, and ...
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... experienced workers may train new workers, or practices at one company may be imitated at another. Such processes of reproducing, or copying, play an important role by changing the mix of strategies or agents in a population. The idea ...
... experienced workers may train new workers, or practices at one company may be imitated at another. Such processes of reproducing, or copying, play an important role by changing the mix of strategies or agents in a population. The idea ...
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... experience can lead to false conclusions; imitation of apparent success can be misleading; and culling the less effective members of the population can lead to the inadvertent elimination of potentially successful strategies. When a ...
... experience can lead to false conclusions; imitation of apparent success can be misleading; and culling the less effective members of the population can lead to the inadvertent elimination of potentially successful strategies. When a ...
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... experience by revising their strategies, they are constantly changing the context in which other agents are trying to adapt. For example, workers in a company might be learning better ways to produce a product. Each change of strategy ...
... experience by revising their strategies, they are constantly changing the context in which other agents are trying to adapt. For example, workers in a company might be learning better ways to produce a product. Each change of strategy ...
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