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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... lead to consequences that may be hard to imagine in advance. There are, of course, many situations that are not complex, where we know what actions are possible and what consequences they will likely produce. When we do, we can choose ...
... lead to consequences that may be hard to imagine in advance. There are, of course, many situations that are not complex, where we know what actions are possible and what consequences they will likely produce. When we do, we can choose ...
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... lead by example. A computer program seeking useful resources might buy information from other programs and keep track of which ones provided resources that were actually worth what was paid. These are all strategies. Our usage includes ...
... lead by example. A computer program seeking useful resources might buy information from other programs and keep track of which ones provided resources that were actually worth what was paid. These are all strategies. Our usage includes ...
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... 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 selection process ...
... 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 selection process ...
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... lead to perpetual novelty for both sides. The system may never settle down. The impoverished woman seeking a loan is also in a Complex Adaptive System consisting of many others: potential borrowers and creditors, merchants and consumers ...
... lead to perpetual novelty for both sides. The system may never settle down. The impoverished woman seeking a loan is also in a Complex Adaptive System consisting of many others: potential borrowers and creditors, merchants and consumers ...
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... lead to more desirable predicted futures. This stance can be stretched to accommodate some uncertainty by bringing in specialized techniques like Bayesian inference to deal with probability distributions on possible futures. But the ...
... lead to more desirable predicted futures. This stance can be stretched to accommodate some uncertainty by bringing in specialized techniques like Bayesian inference to deal with probability distributions on possible futures. But the ...
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