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Home > Business & Economics > HR & Personnel Mgmt > Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier-eBook
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Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change.

Building on evolutionary biology, computer science, and social design, Axelrod and Cohen have constructed a unique framework for improving the way people work together. Their approach to management is based on the concept of the Complex Adaptive System, which can describe everything from rain forests to the human gene pool, and from automated software agents to multinational companies. The authors' framework reveals three qualities that all kinds of managers must cultivate in their organization:

  • Variation What is the best way to manage the development of software? Should the problem be broken up into small pieces for programmers working independently, thus enhancing variation, or should there be a centralized hierarchy of programmers ruled by a chain of command? The authors show how the decentralized creation of variation combined with the centralized maintenance of standards was the key to the success of the Linux "open source software" project, which brought together thousands of volunteers in cyberspace to produce an operating system that can outperform Microsoft's.
  • Interaction Why did northern Italy prosper while southern Italy remained poor? Recognizing the internal interactions of a Complex Adaptive System -- be it a national region, a company, or a nonprofit group -- reveals vital networks of trust. Axelrod and Cohen explain that in successful adaptive systems, rich networks of horizontal linkages foster cooperation and provide an advantage over other less cooperatively networked groups. In the case of Italy, voluntary association
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Title of ebook: Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
ISBN: 9780743203739
Publisher: Free Press
Internet download file size: 186 kb
Released online for download: 08-23-2002
Author of eBook: Axelrod, Robert
Joint Author: Cohen, Michael D.

Harnessing Complexity

Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

Preface

This is a small book about a large question: In a world where many players are all adapting to each other and where the emerging future is extremely hard to predict, what actions should you take?

We call such worlds Complex Adaptive Systems. In Complex Adaptive Systems there are often many participants, perhaps even many kinds of participants. They interact in intricate ways that continually reshape their collective future. New ways of doing things - even new kinds of participants - may arise, and old ways - or old participants - may vanish. Such systems challenge understanding as well as prediction. These difficulties are familiar to anyone who has seen small changes unleash major consequences. Conversely, they are familiar to anyone who has been surprised when large changes in policies or tools produce no long-run change in people's behavior.

When managers and policy makers hear about complexity research, they often ask, "How can I control complexity?" What they usually ... read full excerpt from Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier ebook



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