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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... Social Capital 64 How Interaction Works Proximity and Activation Spaces: Physical and Conceptual Example: Combating the AIDS Virus, Part 1 External Methods of Changing Interaction Patterns Barriers to Movement in Time and Physical Space ...
... Social Capital 64 How Interaction Works Proximity and Activation Spaces: Physical and Conceptual Example: Combating the AIDS Virus, Part 1 External Methods of Changing Interaction Patterns Barriers to Movement in Time and Physical Space ...
الصفحة xii
... social systems, or in how to make better policy for existing social systems. For these readers we draw on a wide range of applications from business, political, and cultural settings. We make no assumptions about the backgrounds of our ...
... social systems, or in how to make better policy for existing social systems. For these readers we draw on a wide range of applications from business, political, and cultural settings. We make no assumptions about the backgrounds of our ...
الصفحة xiii
... social design come insights into people and their activities in political, economic, and social systems. Entire disciplines—such as political science, economics, sociology, psychology, and history—have been devoted to understanding ...
... social design come insights into people and their activities in political, economic, and social systems. Entire disciplines—such as political science, economics, sociology, psychology, and history—have been devoted to understanding ...
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... social design, our analysis differs from all three of these in important ways. Unlike evolutionary biology, we are primarily interested • in the shaping of evolutionary processes rather than just observation and explanation, • in ...
... social design, our analysis differs from all three of these in important ways. Unlike evolutionary biology, we are primarily interested • in the shaping of evolutionary processes rather than just observation and explanation, • in ...
الصفحة xv
... Social Darwinism (Hofstadter, 1955) or sociobiology (Wilson, 1975). We view processes of biological change as wonderful examples in the larger set of Complex Adaptive Systems. However, they have special kinds of agents, particular sorts ...
... Social Darwinism (Hofstadter, 1955) or sociobiology (Wilson, 1975). We view processes of biological change as wonderful examples in the larger set of Complex Adaptive Systems. However, they have special kinds of agents, particular sorts ...
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