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Applications and Limitations of Complexity Theory in Organization
Theory and Strategy |
Despite the importance of strategy in the business literature, there
is a paucity of understanding and consensus around foundational
issues in the discipline. What exactly is the nature of those
intangible competencies, capabilities, resources, and assets that
enable one firm to succeed while another stumbles? What makes a
particular competency difficult to duplicate or acquire? Must a
firm's strategy fit the environment, or can a firm successfully
shape its environment to suit its existing capabilities? |
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Chaos Theory and Crisis Management |
How can chaos theory be applied to crisis management. Brief article |
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Chaos, Order and Strategy |
Businesses are constantly walking a fine line between order versus
chaos and predictability versus unpredictability. A business
strategy must embrace both phenomena. (scroll down for English text) |
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Complexity Theory and Strategy |
A basis for Product Development. In this paper is given a brief
description of complexity theory in connection with teamwork, as
well as strategy and maneuver thinking as they apply to product
development. Pdf 2005 |
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Foresight, Complexity and Strategy |
What is a strategy? The answer to this question ought to depend on
the foresight horizon: how far ahead, and how much, the strategist
thinks he can foresee. When the very structure of the firm's world
is undergoing cascades of rapid change, and interpretations about
the identity of agents and artifacts are characterized by ambiguity,
we say that the foresight horizon is complex. |
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Insights from complex systems |
An attempt at creating a general conceptual framework for thinking
about complex systems for both scientists and non-scientists |
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Introduction to Systems Thinking |
Article by Gene Bellinger |
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Self Organizing Systems FAQs |
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Simulation-Based Complexity Management |
Manage complexity, reduce risks and increase earnings by 3 to 5
percentage points.
Strategic business decisions based on experience, intuition or “gut
feelings" can lead to lost earnings potential, unmanageable
complexity and unnecessary risks. Using a holistic simulation-based
approach, companies can predict the longer-term impact of every
business decision. pdf. 2010 |
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Systems Thinking |
An operational perspective of the universe, article by Gene
Bellinger |
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Transorganizations: Managing in a Complex and Uncertain World |
The use of single organization management paradigms and practices
are becoming increasingly more limited and limiting. We are
witnessing a major confrontation to the rugged individualistic
managerial and organizational thinking and practices. |
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What is Chaos? |
A definition by the Santa Fe Institute |
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