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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الصفحة ix
... Framework Asks What a User of the Framework Can Do What May Come of This Approach References Index 128 128 131 136 143 145 146 147 148 152 152 153 154 155 158 161 173 Preface This is a small book about a large question: Contents ix.
... Framework Asks What a User of the Framework Can Do What May Come of This Approach References Index 128 128 131 136 143 145 146 147 148 152 152 153 154 155 158 161 173 Preface This is a small book about a large question: Contents ix.
الصفحة xi
... question: In a world where many players are all adapting to each other and where the emerging future is extremely hard to predict, what actions should you take? We call such worlds Complex Adaptive Systems. In Complex Adaptive Systems ...
... question: In a world where many players are all adapting to each other and where the emerging future is extremely hard to predict, what actions should you take? We call such worlds Complex Adaptive Systems. In Complex Adaptive Systems ...
الصفحة xii
... questions and promising possibilities for action. We found that our framework helped to clarify some deep relationships among many hitherto separate lines of complexity research. Moreover, the framework uncovered some important gaps. To ...
... questions and promising possibilities for action. We found that our framework helped to clarify some deep relationships among many hitherto separate lines of complexity research. Moreover, the framework uncovered some important gaps. To ...
الصفحة xvi
... questions, and a set of design issues. By itself, it is not a falsifiable theory. Such a theory would have to specify the operational meaning of the key concepts and mechanisms in a particular domain. For example, to apply the Complex ...
... questions, and a set of design issues. By itself, it is not a falsifiable theory. Such a theory would have to specify the operational meaning of the key concepts and mechanisms in a particular domain. For example, to apply the Complex ...
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... questions and new possibilities for action. It suggests ways of “harnessing complexity.” In this first chapter, a set of examples briefly introduces many of the main ideas of our framework. We do not linger over important details that ...
... questions and new possibilities for action. It suggests ways of “harnessing complexity.” In this first chapter, a set of examples briefly introduces many of the main ideas of our framework. We do not linger over important details that ...
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