Intelligent Organizations Powerful Models for Systemic Management
Title:
Intelligent Organizations Powerful Models for Systemic Management
Author:
Schwaninger, Markus. author.
ISBN:
9783540298779
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Physical Description:
XII, 240 p. 38 illus. online resource.
Contents:
Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms -- Complexity and Understanding -- Management — A Distributed Function -- Intelligent Organization — A Systemic Framework -- Activities: What the Organization Does -- Structure — Preconditions for Effective Action -- Behavior — The Control of Cognition and Emotion -- Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations -- Time and Organizational Dynamics -- The Framework Revisited -- Outlook: The Way Ahead.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29877-0