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Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence Pocketbok – 30 Juli 2015

Engelska utgåvan av Jean G Boulton (Författare), Emeritus Professor Peter M Allen (Författare), Professor of Strategic Management Cliff Bowman (Författare)
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The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals.

The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility.

The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations.

The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.

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    Oxford University Press, USA
  4. Publiceringsdatum
    30 Juli 2015
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    0199565260
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Jean G. Boulton, Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management and Director, Claremont Management Consultants Ltd, Peter M. Allen, Emeritus Professor, Cranfield University, Cliff Bowman, Professor of Strategic Management, Cranfield University

Jean Boulton is a director, strategy consultant and part-time academic at both Bath and Cranfield universities. She teaches, consults, researches and writes about the implications of complexity thinking to management, research and policy development. She has been Chair of Sustain Ltd, Chair of Social Action for Health, a non-executive director of IOPP and Head of Engineering Operations for BAe Commercial Aircraft. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield School of Management. She has consulted many blue chip companies and charities including Carillion, RBS, ICI, Lloyds TSB and Oxfam. Her background in theoretical physics coupled with her practical engagement in the fields of management and social research - both through academia, consulting, hands-on management and working as a director and trustee - give her a multi-faceted, informed and practical perspective on the implications of embracing complexity.

Peter Allen developed and ran the Complex Systems Research Centre in the School of Management at Cranfield University since the late 1990s. He has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and from 1970 to 1987 worked with Professor Ilya Prigogine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles on research that led on to the development of Complexity Science. He is an Editor in Chief of the Journal, Emergence: Complexity and Organization. He has written and edited several books in the field of complexity and socio-economic modelling and published well over 200 articles in a range of fields including ecology, social science, urban and regional science, economics, systems theory, and physics. In 2011 he co-edited the Sage Handbook on Complexity and Management. He has been a consultant to DERA, the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Department of Trade and Industry, the Canadian Fishing Industry, Elf Aquitaine, the United Nations University, the European Commission and the Asian Development Bank.

Cliff Bowman's research interests focus on the creation and capture of value, complexity, strategy processes and the development and leveraging of strategic assets. He has undertaken consulting assignments for a wide range of organizations and is the author of ten books and sixty articles. Cliff is a past Chairman of the European Case Clearing House, was Faculty Dean of Cranfield School of Management from 1998 to 2006, and holds two non-executive director positions.

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  • Utgivare ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press, USA (30 Juli 2015)
  • Språk ‏ : ‎ Engelska
  • Pocketbok ‏ : ‎ 288 sidor
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199565260
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199565269
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5,0 av 5 stjärnor Sehr gut
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Ich arbeite mit agentenbasierten Modellen und kann nur sagen dass es ein ein sehr gutes Buch ist. Alle die Konzepte werden gut erklaert.
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Richard N. Knowles
5,0 av 5 stjärnor Coming into a brighter world.
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This is an excellent, comprehensive, thoughtful book about developing a complexity mindset and how powerful this way of thinking becomes in our life and work.It is written for regular people so they can open their minds to the complex world in which we live.Their fine summary of the state of complexity theory with the historical threads and history are quite interesting. They also have many case studies and ideas about how to use complexity thinking can improve social systems, economic systems and in policy making.
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Matt
5,0 av 5 stjärnor Life changing
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I've been helping teams and organisations improve the way they do their stuff for years...

When I read this book...everything fitted into place.

When I say read this is an understatement.

I was absorbed in it and will never think the same way again...
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Alan Broomhead
4,0 av 5 stjärnor Need to let go
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"I feel that we have increasingly been indoctrinated in the West with this idea that the world works like a machine and that to improve things we need to define things better, we need to have better processes, we need to have tighter control." This statement by Jean Boulton, one of the authors, comes near the end of the book and is its entire premise and justification. While enormous progress has been made, particularly in the natural sciences, using an analytic and reductionist approach, we need a mindset that understands the world as comprising open, not closed systems, in which situations emerge as the result of multiple and interconnected causes and are difficult to predict let alone control.

For those who manage enterprises, the lessons are clear. A system such as your business environment or your company may be stable and settle into a state of self-organization in which processes are 'locked in' and unchanging. Such a system is not resilient and is vulnerable to collapse if conditions change. Resiliency comes from internal variation and a level of redundancy that may contradict a tidy, mechanistic approach to organization, but can result in adaptability to changing conditions. The complexity world view does not see the elements of a system and attempt to control them individually, nor does it try to reduce any system to its essential elements; it views an excess of diversity and redundancy as essential to the long-term survival of any system.

The book is not highly theoretical. The authors have chosen to lay out in broad strokes the principles of a complexity worldview, and describe their implications for several areas of activity, including the social sciences, international development, management, and strategy. For managers, the latter two areas are particularly helpful, and offer an alternative to the accepted approaches to budgeting, target setting, and strategic planning. While you can set objectives, "often objectives are met due to factors coming together and we get the glory for something that was happening anyway" (p. 125). This wouldn't go over too well in an annual performance appraisal meeting, but does jibe with the reality that many employees experience. The implications described are to plan, but don't overplan; build flexibility into your planning and don't expect the outcome you anticipate; and give up the illusion of control that strategic planning typically brings.

It seems sometimes that the authors are working a bit too hard to push a view that appears obvious when you think about it. But for those who are involved in budgeting, target setting, specifying student learning outcomes, or any other activity that attempts to impose some control over a situation, it will come across as a refreshing and realistic reminder of how the world really works.
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3,0 av 5 stjärnor Complexity in words - and more words
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This book is only 246 pages long, but it felt like 400! It was a slow read although, to be fair, the subject matter is hardly racy. Complexity theory is not easily illustrated with images or represented in diagrammatic form, so the authors are forced to rely upon language to convey some difficult concepts. The tedium is relieved by useful case studies, applying complexity theory to both international development aid and economic management. There is no doubting the experience and authority of the authors, but their work is marred by a general lack of brevity, including repetition. 200 pages would have delivered a more memorable read. Nevertheless, anyone keen to learn more about this important topic should probably give this book a chance (time permitting).
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