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 vii
... Variation The Role of Variation Altering the Frequency of Types Copying With Error Endogenous Copying Mechanisms Recombining Mechanisms xi 3 11 15 20 23 25 27 28 32 32 38 38 40 41 Exploration Versus Exploitation Example: Military ...
... Variation The Role of Variation Altering the Frequency of Types Copying With Error Endogenous Copying Mechanisms Recombining Mechanisms xi 3 11 15 20 23 25 27 28 32 32 38 38 40 41 Exploration Versus Exploitation Example: Military ...
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... variation of a fruit fly. Variation, interaction, and selection are at work in a population of business strategies, but the detailed mechanisms are often distinctly unbiological. To harness complexity effectively, many kinds of Complex ...
... variation of a fruit fly. Variation, interaction, and selection are at work in a population of business strategies, but the detailed mechanisms are often distinctly unbiological. To harness complexity effectively, many kinds of Complex ...
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... Variation, Interaction, and Selection. In them we study important mechanisms that can be used to influence the amount of variety in a system so as to affect the balance between exploration and exploitation, to alter the structure of ...
... Variation, Interaction, and Selection. In them we study important mechanisms that can be used to influence the amount of variety in a system so as to affect the balance between exploration and exploitation, to alter the structure of ...
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... variation among strategies. Second, populations have structure—interaction patterns that determine which pairs of agents are likely to interact and which pairs unlikely. The borrowing strategy moves among friends or relatives. Real ...
... variation among strategies. Second, populations have structure—interaction patterns that determine which pairs of agents are likely to interact and which pairs unlikely. The borrowing strategy moves among friends or relatives. Real ...
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... variation for the population. Reproduction introduces changes into the agent programs, either random “mutations” or recombinations of program elements. These changes alter the population of software agents, and over time the agent ...
... variation for the population. Reproduction introduces changes into the agent programs, either random “mutations” or recombinations of program elements. These changes alter the population of software agents, and over time the agent ...
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