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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... learning, and abundant attempts to imitate each other's successes, there will also be rich opportunities to harness the resulting complexity. And there will be things to avoid. To take a simple example: Even though one action seems best ...
... learning, and abundant attempts to imitate each other's successes, there will also be rich opportunities to harness the resulting complexity. And there will be things to avoid. To take a simple example: Even though one action seems best ...
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... learning 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 ...
... learning 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 ...
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... learning, or imitation of the strategies of apparently successful agents. Selection can also result from population changes like birth and death, hiring and firing, immigration and emigration, or start-up and bankruptcy. Selection need ...
... learning, or imitation of the strategies of apparently successful agents. Selection can also result from population changes like birth and death, hiring and firing, immigration and emigration, or start-up and bankruptcy. Selection need ...
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... learning better ways to produce a product. Each change of strategy by a worker alters the context in which the next change will be tried and evaluated. When multiple populations of agents are adapting to each other, the result is a ...
... learning better ways to produce a product. Each change of strategy by a worker alters the context in which the next change will be tried and evaluated. When multiple populations of agents are adapting to each other, the result is a ...
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