Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management - Rilegato

Schwaninger, Markus

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ISBN 10: 3540298762 ISBN 13: 9783540298762

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 2006

Riassunto

This 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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This innovative book opens a path to overcoming the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The systems approach on which this work is grounded enables the development of the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. Powerful models, grounded in organizational cybernetics and system dynamics, are presented in a way that lets the reader immediately apply them in practice. This book will be a source for improvement in any kind of organization, whether private or public, non-profit, large or small.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540298762
• ISBN 13: 9783540298762
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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