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Human systems management : integrating knowledge, management and systems /

Human Systems Management is an important work that integrates knowledge, management and systems into a unified world of thinking and action in business, decision-making and economics. It presents a modern synthesis of the fields of knowledge management, systems science and human organization. A biol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zeleny, Milan, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Production of Knowledge: Moving from Data and Information to Knowledge and Wisdom
  • 1.1 Information is Not Knowledge
  • 1.1.1 Knowledge Era
  • 1.1.2 Knowledge versus Information
  • 1.2 Knowledge as Capital
  • 1.2.1 Knowledge and the Prosperity of Nations
  • 1.3 Definition and Taxonomy of Knowledge
  • 1.3.1 Forms of Knowledge
  • 1.3.2 DIKW Chain
  • 1.3.3 Tacit and Explicit Knowledge?
  • 1.3.4 Measuring Knowledge
  • 1.3.5 Value of Knowledge: An Example
  • 1.3.6 Knowledge-Information Cycle: ECIS
  • 1.3.7 Theory of knowledge
  • 1.3.8 Language
  • 1.3.9 Community of Action
  • 1.3.10 Knowledge as a Process
  • 1.3.11 Uses and Users of Knowledge
  • 1.4 Division and Reintegration of Knowledge
  • 1.4.1 Process of Reintegration
  • 1.5 Knowledge Management
  • 1.6 Wisdom and Strategy
  • 1.6.1 Definition
  • 1.6.2 On the Art of Asking Why
  • 1.6.3 Wisdom and Ethics
  • 1.6.4 Wisdom Based Strategy
  • 1.7 Human Systems Management
  • 1.7.1 The Notion of Change
  • 1.7.2 The Impact of Communication
  • 1.7.3 The Nature of Love and Respect
  • 1.7.4 The Role of Conversation
  • 1.7.5 Purpose and Identity
  • 1.7.6 Human Systems
  • 1.8 Fuzzines, Ambiguity and Imprecision
  • 1.8.1 Language and Fuzzy Labels
  • 1.8.2 Fuzziness and Interpretation
  • 1.8.3 Negotiated Meaning
  • 1.8.4 Meaning from Imprecision: Fuzzy Sets
  • 1.8.5 Production of Knowledge
  • 1.8.6 Cognitive Equilibrium
  • Chapter 2 Management of Systems: Global Management Paradigm
  • 2.1 Managing in the Global Era: GMP
  • 2.1.1 Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
  • 2.1.2 Customer Integration (IPM)
  • 2.1.3 Mass Customization
  • 2.1.4 Elimination of Tradeoffs
  • 2.1.5 Intracompany Markets and Amoeba Systems
  • 2.1.6 Business Lnetics
  • 2.2 Forecasting and Foresight
  • 2.2.1 Decline of Forecasting
  • 2.2.2 Reframing Strategy and Knowledge
  • 2.3 Self-service and Do-It-Yourself
  • 2.3.1 Key Concepts
  • 2.3.2 Evolution of Sectors of Employment
  • 2.3.3 Towards Self-service
  • 2.3.4 Work and Leisure
  • 2.3.5 Telepresence and Telework
  • 2.3.6 What is Telework?
  • 2.3.7 Applications of Telework
  • 2.3.8 Technical Challenges
  • 2.3.9 The Next Best Thing to Being There
  • 2.4 MBA Global Education
  • 2.4.1 MBA and the Schools of Business
  • 2.4.2 Need for Integration
  • 2.4.3 What is the Global E-MBA?
  • 2.4.4 Mass-Customized MBA
  • Chapter 3 Producing Networks: Management and Self-Production in Networks
  • 3.1 New Economy of Networks
  • 3.1.1 Evolution of Management Systems
  • 3.1.2 The New Economy and the Cluetrain Manifesto
  • 3.2 High Technology Management
  • 3.2.1 Components of Technology
  • 3.2.2 Technology Support Net
  • 3.2.3 High Technology
  • 3.2.4 High-Technology Environment
  • 3.2.5 An Example of High Technology
  • 3.3 Autopoiesis
  • 3.3.1 Machine/Organism Dichotomy
  • 3.3.2 Autopoiesis (Self-Production) of Networks
  • 3.3.3 The Model of Autopoiesis
  • 3.3.4 Regonal Enterprise Networks
  • 3.3.5 TCG Triangulation Networks
  • 3.3.6 Eco-Societies and Social Autopoiesis
  • 3.3.7 Tectology and its Basic Concepts
  • Chapter 4 Producing Decisions: Multiple Criteria. Tradeoffs and Conflicts
  • 4.1 Multiple Criteria Decision Making
  • 4.1.1 Types of Criteria.