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A Manifesto for Model-based Management.

The importance of models in support of managers is still widely underestimated. An argument frequently heard imputes that change and complexity in our time are so ubiquitous and mighty that models do not provide adequate orientation. We argue the contrary: The more that people in organizations are c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwaninger, Markus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford : Emerald Group Pub., 2010.
Colección:Kybernetes: Volume 39, Edition 9 & 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Preface; Guest editorial; Model-based management (MBM): a vital prerequisite for organizational viability; Why markets make mistakes; Modeling drivers of organizational change; Merger dynamics; Heuristic-based management (I): variation; Models of organizational cybernetics for diagnosis and design; Brain-supporting environments for decision making in complex systems; Role and contribution of formal models to governing: a heuristic; Using a system dynamics approach for identifying and removing management model inadequacy.
  • Five experiences with the viable system modelOrganization from a systemic perspective; Dynamic cost benefit analysis for mental health reform; Model-based management in start-ups; Model-based lawmaking and the curious case of the Colombian criminal justice system.