Systems Thinking
Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
Samenvatting
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 chapters on self-organizing systems, Holistic, Operational, and Design thinking. Gharajedaghi covers recent crises in financial systems and job markets, the housing bubble, and environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking. A companion website to accompany the book is available at www.interactdesign.com.
-Four NEW chapters on self-organizing systems, holistic thinking, operational thinking, and design thinking
-Covers the recent crises in financial systems and job markets globally, the housing bubble, and the environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking
-Companion website to accompany the book is available at interactdesign.com
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Chapter 1: How the Game Is Evolving
Part II Systems Theory: The Nature of the Beast
Chapter 2: Systems Principles
Chapter 3: Socio-cultural Systems
Chapter 4: Socio-cultural System 2
Part III: Systems Methodology: Logic of the Madness
Chapter 5: Holistic Thinking
Chapter 6: Operational Thinking
Chapter 7: Design Thinking
Chapter 8: Design Thinking (2), Formulation of mess
Chapter 9: Designing thinking (3), Business Architecture
Part IV: Systems Practice: The Gutsy Few
Chapter 10: Oneida Nation
Chapter 11: Butterworth Health System
Chapter 12: Marriott Corporation
Chapter 13; Commonwealth Energy
Chapter 14: Carrier Corporation
Conclusion