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"With the development of society and the great increase of knowledge and information, more and more decision-making problems involve a number of decision makers (DMs). The subjective preference of DMs reflects a particular analysis, thinking process, and cognitive activity of the decision-making problem. Because the uncertainty of the decision-making environment, DMs tend to express their preference with interval numbers, fuzzy numbers, and linguistic...
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Explains multi-level models of enterprise systems and covers modeling methodology This book addresses the essential phenomena underlying the overall behaviors of complex systems and enterprises. Understanding these phenomena can enable improving these systems. These phenomena range from physical, behavioral, and organizational, to economic and social, all of which involve significant human components. Specific phenomena of interest and how they are...
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Professor Scott E. Page from University of Michigan introduces you to complexity science. You learn how this vibrant and still evolving discipline helps you understand the nature and behavior of systems formed of financial markets, corporations, native cultures, governments, and more.
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"Offering a pathway to vibrant organizations, this book integrates systems thinking, critical thinking, and design thinking, and provides the tools needed to proactively apply them in the social systems where we live and work. Systemic thinking-the combination of systems thinking, critical systems thinking, and design thinking-provides a way of addressing the complexity of problems faced by public sector managers. Far too often systemic thinking has...
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"The ideas of this book originate from the mobile WAVE approach which allowed us, more than half century ago, to implement citywide heterogeneous computer networks and solve distributed problems on them well before the internet. The invented paradigm evolved into Spatial Grasp Technology resulted in European Patent and eight books which were oriented on concrete applications in graph and network theory, defence and social systems, crises management,...
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Uniquely reflects an engineering view to social systems in a wide variety of contexts of application Social Systems Engineering: The Design of Complexity brings together a wide variety of application approaches to social systems from an engineering viewpoint. The book defines a social system as any complex system formed by human beings. Focus is given to the importance of systems intervention design for specific and singular settings, the possibilities...
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This book is devoted to a systems-theoretical presentation of the main results of money and financial institutions by using the systemic yoyo model and relevant analytical tools. The author presents the main concepts and results of the subject matter in the language of systems science, which has in the past century brought forward revolutionary applications of systems research in various areas of the traditional disciplines. Because of the brand new...
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"Why is it that the trust in leadership and the success of leaders seems to erode as we develop and refine more sophisticated models for leading, such as emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, adaptive leadership, etc.? Mila Baker believes that most of today's leadership theories are old wines in new skins, and still rely on the leader-follower hierarchy. Yet the idea of hierarchy is breaking down everywhere in society, from politics,...
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"Implement demand driven smart metrics to drive and sustain dramatic gains in flow and improve ROI performance. What if the objective of minimizing unit product cost that is hard coded into all reporting and measurement systems is simply "bad math" that drives decisions and actions that destroy ROI? In today's volatile, globally competitive environment, new decision-making tools are required to monitor, measure, and improve total organizational performance....
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"Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives. Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our times. We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships...
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