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 xiv
... situations in which the players and their preferences are fixed, as they are in game theory, and • in problems in which decentralization is both promising and problematic, rather than situations in which decentralization is seen as ...
... situations in which the players and their preferences are fixed, as they are in game theory, and • in problems in which decentralization is both promising and problematic, rather than situations in which decentralization is seen as ...
الصفحة xv
... situations such as turbulence (Gleick, 1987) that rapidly become highly disordered and unmanageable. On the other hand, complexity deals with systems composed of many interacting agents. While complex systems may be hard to predict ...
... situations such as turbulence (Gleick, 1987) that rapidly become highly disordered and unmanageable. On the other hand, complexity deals with systems composed of many interacting agents. While complex systems may be hard to predict ...
الصفحة xvi
... situations in which accurate prediction has always been difficult. In return for accepting complexity, we have a more systematic approach to harnessing it. This intellectual tactic reminds us of a guiding principle of the martial art of ...
... situations in which accurate prediction has always been difficult. In return for accepting complexity, we have a more systematic approach to harnessing it. This intellectual tactic reminds us of a guiding principle of the martial art of ...
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... situations that are not complex, where we know what actions are possible and what consequences they will likely ... situation. We sense that a choice may have large consequences, but we are unsure what these may be. For example, in ...
... situations that are not complex, where we know what actions are possible and what consequences they will likely ... situation. We sense that a choice may have large consequences, but we are unsure what these may be. For example, in ...
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... situations: • A member of a work team wants to elicit cooperation from coworkers to get a job done; • An impoverished woman in Bangladesh needs to borrow a little money from someone to start a stall in the local market; • A computer ...
... situations: • A member of a work team wants to elicit cooperation from coworkers to get a job done; • An impoverished woman in Bangladesh needs to borrow a little money from someone to start a stall in the local market; • A computer ...
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