Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic ManagementThis is not a book about how to run a company. It is about how to look at the world differently. Ultimately, this will help the reader to deal with complexity more effectively. The market today is flooded with books which claim to show paths to higher organizational effectiveness. Most of these recommendations are given as “recipes for success” and on pragmatic grounds. This book, however, is targeted at all those who want access to the powerful models of systemic manageme nt in order to improve their skills in coping with complexity. The contents are of interest to people who deal with organizations – as leaders and mana gers or specialists, or as advanced students. The purpose is to give them conceptual and methodological guidelines by means of which they can. • Increase the “intelligence” of exis ting organizations by introducing or substituting a better design; • Shape new organizations so that they are “intelligent” from the very start. What are the distinctive features of this book? The book is the result of a long term research effort in to the deep seated, invariant features of organizations, ba sed on the Systems Approach, namely, Organizational Cybernetics and System Dynamics. These sciences have specialized in uncovering such basi c properties. They convey a fresh, sophisticated and unorthodox perspective. It is therefore worthwhile acq uiring the capability of looking at the social world in this different way. |
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... organizations, based on the Systems Approach, namely, Organizational Cybernetics and System Dynamics. These sciences have specialized in uncovering such basic properties. They convey a fresh, sophisticated and unorthodox perspective. It ...
... organizations, based on the Systems Approach, namely, Organizational Cybernetics and System Dynamics. These sciences have specialized in uncovering such basic properties. They convey a fresh, sophisticated and unorthodox perspective. It ...
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... management models will lead to inadequate results, except in cases of exceptional good fortune, that is, unless chance intervenes. • The Systems Approach, namely, Organizational Cybernetics and System Dynamics, provides exceedingly ...
... management models will lead to inadequate results, except in cases of exceptional good fortune, that is, unless chance intervenes. • The Systems Approach, namely, Organizational Cybernetics and System Dynamics, provides exceedingly ...
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... cybernetics . This scientific endeav- refraining from riding the fad and fashion waves swamping man- agement literature today provides a formal apparatus for dealing with complex systems of all kinds and is therefore increasingly being ...
... cybernetics . This scientific endeav- refraining from riding the fad and fashion waves swamping man- agement literature today provides a formal apparatus for dealing with complex systems of all kinds and is therefore increasingly being ...
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... Cybernetics is the branch of Systems Theory, which is most relevant to the issues addressed in this book. Cybernetics is the science of ... Organizational Cybernetics and the methodology of System 1.2 An Innovative View of Organizations 3.
... Cybernetics is the branch of Systems Theory, which is most relevant to the issues addressed in this book. Cybernetics is the science of ... Organizational Cybernetics and the methodology of System 1.2 An Innovative View of Organizations 3.
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Powerful Models for Systemic Management Markus Schwaninger. The models of Organizational Cybernetics and the methodology of System Dynamics, both of which are basic to this book, focus on the dynamic features of complex systems. The ...
Powerful Models for Systemic Management Markus Schwaninger. The models of Organizational Cybernetics and the methodology of System Dynamics, both of which are basic to this book, focus on the dynamic features of complex systems. The ...
Contents
1 | |
10 | |
Management A Distributed Function | 23 |
Intelligent Organization A Systemic | 35 |
What the Organization Does 47 | 46 |
Structure Preconditions for Effective Action | 83 |
7 | 109 |
5 | 120 |
8 | 133 |
Time and Organizational Dynamics 167 | 166 |
The Framework Revisited | 181 |
The Way Ahead | 203 |
Reference 211 | 231 |
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achieve Ackoff activities adaptation agement agents Anatol Rapoport applications aspects Balanced Scorecard basic parameters Beer behaviour Chap chapter co-evolution complexity conceived concept context control variables cope core corporate crucial culture dimensions domain Drucker ecological effective empirical Enron environment ethical ethos example factors firms framework function Gallen goals Heinz von Foerster heterarchical icosahedron infoset innovation insights integrative Intelligent Organizations interaction interventions issues knowledge learning linked long-term mode Model of Systemic normative management operative Organizational Cybernetics organizational identity organizational intelligence orientation Peter Drucker pre-control principle profit purpose Rapoport recursion level relationships relevant scenario Schwaninger second-order cybernetics self-organization simulation social systems Stafford Beer stakeholders Strategic Management strategy structure System Dynamics Systemic Control Systems Approach Team Syntegrity model theory tion units value potentials variety viability and development Viable System Model vision zations