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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... processes such as this create 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 ...
... processes such as this create 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 ...
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... processes of strategy change. We will be interpreting them as many different forms of selection. Selection can be ... process does, however, lead to improvement according to some measure of success, we will call it adaptation. Clearly ...
... processes of strategy change. We will be interpreting them as many different forms of selection. Selection can be ... process does, however, lead to improvement according to some measure of success, we will call it adaptation. Clearly ...
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... process. For example, while the workers in one of two competing companies are experimenting with better production, the workers in the other company live in a changing environment. And their efforts to adapt may change the context of ...
... process. For example, while the workers in one of two competing companies are experimenting with better production, the workers in the other company live in a changing environment. And their efforts to adapt may change the context of ...
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... processes of designing new artifacts or strategies, or refining and implementing policies. The standard procedure of design and policy making is to develop expectations (predictions) of how the future will unfold, and to define actions ...
... processes of designing new artifacts or strategies, or refining and implementing policies. The standard procedure of design and policy making is to develop expectations (predictions) of how the future will unfold, and to define actions ...
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... process such as fragmentation of social structure will be affected by technologies such as rural cellular telephones and satellite television because the driving forces remain obscure. We believe that the difficulty of prediction in ...
... process such as fragmentation of social structure will be affected by technologies such as rural cellular telephones and satellite television because the driving forces remain obscure. We believe that the difficulty of prediction in ...
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