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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... 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 agent. When we talk about agents we will usually expect them to have a number ...
... 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 agent. When we talk about agents we will usually expect them to have a number ...
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... kind of interaction involving getting and repaying loans. The success of Grameen banking is built on the knowledge and interdependence that the members of the borrowers' group already have with each other. These relations are far more ...
... kind of interaction involving getting and repaying loans. The success of Grameen banking is built on the knowledge and interdependence that the members of the borrowers' group already have with each other. These relations are far more ...
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... kind of dynamical zoo, a “wonder cabinet” of processes that change (or resist change) in patterns wildly unlike the smoothly additive changes of their simpler cousins. The complex systems world is a world of avalanches, of “founder ...
... kind of dynamical zoo, a “wonder cabinet” of processes that change (or resist change) in patterns wildly unlike the smoothly additive changes of their simpler cousins. The complex systems world is a world of avalanches, of “founder ...
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... kind are not very reliable. It is worth noting that the difficulty of predicting the detailed behavior of these systems does not come from their having large numbers of components. Often science can skillfully exploit large numbers to ...
... kind are not very reliable. It is worth noting that the difficulty of predicting the detailed behavior of these systems does not come from their having large numbers of components. Often science can skillfully exploit large numbers to ...
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