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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... chapters. The first introduces the reader to the purpose of the book and the innovative, systemic approach to coping with complexity which it offers. In the next three chapters, crucial concepts of systemic management are laid out: Chapter ...
... chapters. The first introduces the reader to the purpose of the book and the innovative, systemic approach to coping with complexity which it offers. In the next three chapters, crucial concepts of systemic management are laid out: Chapter ...
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... chapters and giving me other support of every conceiv- able kind. St. Gallen August 2008 Markus Schwaninger Chapter 1 Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms “Das Wissen gehe xii Preface.
... chapters and giving me other support of every conceiv- able kind. St. Gallen August 2008 Markus Schwaninger Chapter 1 Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms “Das Wissen gehe xii Preface.
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... chapter will introduce the reader to the new approach offered by this book, and to its scientific basis. It is intended to help readers cope with the complexities faced in our turbulent age. 1.1 The Need for Organizational Innovation In ...
... chapter will introduce the reader to the new approach offered by this book, and to its scientific basis. It is intended to help readers cope with the complexities faced in our turbulent age. 1.1 The Need for Organizational Innovation In ...
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... chapter. 1.5 Purpose and Scope of this Book The purpose of this book is to make managers and advanced students of management capable of coping with organizational complexity effec- tively. The guiding question is: “How can ...
... chapter. 1.5 Purpose and Scope of this Book The purpose of this book is to make managers and advanced students of management capable of coping with organizational complexity effec- tively. The guiding question is: “How can ...
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... chapter. It is hoped that the examples and case studies will pro- vide insights as well as meaningful and often gripping illustrations. The models are presented in graphical form, with hardly any mathematics. Finally, carefully thought ...
... chapter. It is hoped that the examples and case studies will pro- vide insights as well as meaningful and often gripping illustrations. The models are presented in graphical form, with hardly any mathematics. Finally, carefully thought ...
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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Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management Markus Schwaninger No preview available - 2008 |
Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management Markus Schwaninger No preview available - 2010 |
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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