Intelligent Organizations
Powerful Models for Systemic Management
| <P>This book offers an innovative approach for overcoming the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The text fully explores this powerful tool, which is grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics. The book will serve as a sourcebook for improvement in many types of organizations, private or public, non-profit, large or small. The approach teaches managers and advanced students of management cope with organizational complexity in an effective way.</P> |
Inhalt
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 p- erful models of systemic management in order to improve their skills in coping with complexity. The contents are of interest to people who deal with organizations – as leaders and managers 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 existing organizations by introducing or substituting a better design; Shape new organizations so that they are "intelligent" from the very start.
Bibliografische Angaben
September 2006, 240 Seiten, Englisch
SPRINGER
9783540298779