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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... issues either by way of qualitative concepts, models and methods, or by quantitative techniques. Both approaches have their pros and cons, but neither is sufficient in itself. Despite the urgent necessity to do so, little effort has ...
... issues either by way of qualitative concepts, models and methods, or by quantitative techniques. Both approaches have their pros and cons, but neither is sufficient in itself. Despite the urgent necessity to do so, little effort has ...
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... issue, while Chap. 3 discusses forms of distributed organization as a managerial response to that com- plexity. In Chap. 4, a framework for the design of Intelligent Organizations is presented. This framework is made up of five ...
... issue, while Chap. 3 discusses forms of distributed organization as a managerial response to that com- plexity. In Chap. 4, a framework for the design of Intelligent Organizations is presented. This framework is made up of five ...
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... issues. Special thanks go to Prof. Dante Martinelli and his students at the Uni- versidade de São Paulo, Brazil, as well as my assistants Kristjan Ambroz, Stefan Groesser and Camilo Olaya, for reading the texts and making impor- tant ...
... issues. Special thanks go to Prof. Dante Martinelli and his students at the Uni- versidade de São Paulo, Brazil, as well as my assistants Kristjan Ambroz, Stefan Groesser and Camilo Olaya, for reading the texts and making impor- tant ...
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... issues are of high priority and should therefore be of general interest. Yet, in gen- eral public consciousness of organizations is still rather vague. This is a problem, because without realizing the fact we both shape our organiza ...
... issues are of high priority and should therefore be of general interest. Yet, in gen- eral public consciousness of organizations is still rather vague. This is a problem, because without realizing the fact we both shape our organiza ...
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... issue on the basis of a single discipline microeconomics , sociology , psychology , technology , etc. is an elegant way to optimize in a single dimension , but the path to unstable or even chaotic behaviour of the system in question is ...
... issue on the basis of a single discipline microeconomics , sociology , psychology , technology , etc. is an elegant way to optimize in a single dimension , but the path to unstable or even chaotic behaviour of the system in question is ...
Contents
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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