Systems Thinking : Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture


Jamshid. Gharajedaghi
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Burlington : : Elsevier Science, , 2011.
Omfang
1 online resource (374 p.)
Utgave
3rd ed.
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the Third Edition; Foreword to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgment; Part One: System Philosophy: The Name of the Devil; Chapter 1: How the GameIs Evolving; 1.1 Imitation; 1.2 Inertia; 1.3 Suboptimization; 1.4 Change of the game; 1.5 Shift of paradigm; 1.6 Interdependency and choice; 1.6.1 On the Nature of Organization: The First Paradigm Shift; 1.7 On the nature of inquiry; 1.7.1 The Second Paradigm Shift; 1.8 The competitive games. - 1.8.1 Mass Production - Interchangeability of Parts and Labor1.8.2 Divisional Structure - Managing Growth and Diversity; 1.8.3 Participative Management; 1.8.4 Operations Research - Joint Optimization; 1.8.5 Lean Production System - Flexibility and Control; 1.8.6 Interactive Management - Design Approach; Part Two: Systems Theory: The Nature of the Beast; Chapter 2: Systems Principles; 2.1 Openness; 2.2 Purposefulness; 2.2.1 Recap; 2.3 Multidimensionality; 2.3.1 Plurality of Function, Structure, and Process; 2.3.2 Recap; 2.4 Emergent Property; 2.4.1 Recap; 2.5 Counterintuitive Behavior. - 2.5.1 RecapChapter 3: Sociocultural System; 3.1 Self-organizatioN: movement toward a Lpredefined order; 3.2 Information-bonded systems; 3.3 Culture; 3.4 Social learning; 3.5 Culture as an operating system; Chapter 4: Development; 4.1 Schematic view of theoretical traditions; 4.2 Systems view of development; 4.3 Obstruction to development; 4.3.1 Alienation; 4.3.2 Polarization; 4.3.3 Corruption; 4.3.4 Terrorism; 4.3.5 Recap; Part Three: Systems Methodology: The Logic of the Madness; Chapter 5: Holistic Thinking; 5.1 Iterative process of inquiry; 5.2 Systems dimensions. - 5.2.1 Generation and Dissemination of Wealth5.2.2 Generation and Dissemination of Power ( Centralization and Decentralization Happen at the Same Time); 5.2.3 Generation and Dissemination of Beauty: Social Integration; 5.2.4 Generation and Dissemination of Knowledge; 5.2.5 Generation and Dissemination of the Value: Conflict Management; Chapter 6: Operational Thinking: Dynamic Systems: Dealingwith Chaos and Complexity; 6.1 Complexity; 6.1.1 Open Loop and Closed Loop Systems; 6.1.2 Linear and Nonlinear Systems; 6.2 Operational thinking, the iThink language; 6.2.1 Connectors. - 6.2.2 Modeling Interdependency6.3 Dynamics of throughput systems; 6.3.1 Critical Properties of the Process; 6.3.2 Model of the Process; 6.3.3 Measurement and Learning; Chapter 7: Design Thinking; 7.1 Design thinking, as the systems methodology; 7.2 Operating principles of design thinking; 7.3 Modular design; 7.4 Design and process of social change; 7.5 Interactive design; 7.5.1 Idealization; 7.5.2 Realization - Successive Approximation; 7.5.3 Dissolving the Second-Order Machine; 7.6 Critical design elements; 7.6.1 Measurement and Reward System (A Social Calculus); 7.6.2 Vertical Compatibility. - 7.6.3 Horizontal Compatibility. - In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. The current edition has been updated to include all new chapter
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