Operationalizing sustainability / Pierre Massotte, Patrick Corsi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massotte, Pierre, author.

Corsi, Patrick, author.

Series:

Innovation, entrepreneurship and management series.

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability.

Sustainable design.

Sustainable engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE : Wiley, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book focuses on the emergence of the “science of sustainability” and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can be reformulated into business models and solutions for new growth and applications. They then move onto the reformulation of future thinking processes before ending by looking towards an approach for the measurement of sustainability and competitiveness.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Note to all Contributors

Note to the Reader

List of Acronyms

Introduction

PART 1: Sustainability: Toward the Unification of Some Underlying Principles and Mechanisms

1: Toward a Sustainability Science

1.1. Introduction

1.2. What does unification mean?

1.3. Coming back to sustainability: how many "sustainabilities"?

1.4. Sustainability: what kind of unification? An integration issue?

1.5. What kind of paradigm do we have to integrate?

1.6. The issue and the implementation of a new dimension

1.7. Extensions of the concept

2: Sustainability in Complex Systems

2.1. Preamble: theories of interconnected systems

2.2. Analysis of feedback phenomena in an assembly manufacturing cell

2.3. Application to complex systems: quantitative characteristics of a deterministic chaos

2.4. General considerations about interactions in networked organizations

2.5. Role of feedback in mimicry and ascendancy over others

2.6. Network theory: additional characteristics due to their new structure

2.7. Simplexification

2.8. Convergences in network theory

3: Extension: From Complexity to the Code of Thought

3.1. The code of thought: effects of cognition and psyche in global sustainability

3.2. Is sustainability the only technological and technocratic approach?

3.3. The three laws of sustainability: prediction and anticipation in complex systems

3.4. Consequence: toward a new dimension

3.5. Conclusion

3.6. Indicators for monitoring the EU sustainable development strategy

PART 2: Operationalization: Methods, Techniques and Tools - the Need to Manage the Impact

4: From Context to Knowledge: Building Decision-making Systems

4.1. Introduction

4.2. How about obtaining a sustainable knowledge?.

4.3. Preliminary consideration: the nature of the problems encountered in test and diagnosis

4.4. Preamble: basic concepts for creating knowledge

4.5. Retroduction and abduction

4.6. Deduction and induction

4.7. The development of a relational reasoning graph

4.8. A complete integrated reasoning process

4.9. How can a computer analyze different types of reasoning?

4.10. Applications

5: From Context to Knowledge: Basic Methodology Review

5.1. Application of abduction and retroduction to create knowledge

5.2. Analysis and synthesis as modeling process

5.3. Background on empirical results: integration principles

5.4. A review and comparison of some common approaches: TRIZ and C-K theory

6: From Knowledge to Context and Back: The C-K Theory and Methodology

6.1. Introduction

6.2. A primer on C-K theory

6.3. On the nature of the knowledge space

6.4. On the nature of the concept space

6.5. Discussing the theory

6.6. Some differentiating points and benefits of C-K theory

6.7. On fielding C-K theory in organizations

6.8. A summary on C-K theory

6.9. A short glossary on C-K theory

6.10. Links with knowledge management

6.11. Example on a specific futuristic conceptual case: "a man who can travel through time"

6.12. Methodological findings

PART 3: Reformulating the Above Into Business Models and Solutions for New Growth and Applications

7: Principles and Methods for the Design and Development of Sustainable Systems

7.1. Introduction

7.2. How to go further?

7.3. Examples of methods and learning related to complex adaptive systems

7.4. First example: crisis management

7.5. Second example: urban organizations

7.6. Third example: education and career evolution

7.7. A review of survival, resilience and sustainability concepts

7.8. Methodologies in sustainability.

7.9. Resilience: methodology

7.10. Information system sustainability

7.11. Application: managing the "skill mismatch" in a company

7.12. Sustainability of the organizations in a company

7.13. Conclusions

8: Toward the Mass Co-design: Why is Social Innovation so Attractive?

8.1. Introduction

8.2. How can we define innovation and social innovation?

8.3. Sustainability: how can we position social innovation?

8.4. Social innovation examples

8.5. A contextual change in society

8.6. Basic concepts and mechanisms

8.7. The principle of circularity: a paradigm shift

8.8. Generalization: how to turn back time

8.9. Problems of technological evolution

8.10. Evolution: application to cellular networks

8.11. Conclusions: the new sustainable environment

9: On Integrating Innovation and CSR when Developing Sustainable Systems

9.1. The new Smartphones: a tool for an inclusive society

9.2. Innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) behaviors

9.3. Integrating business objectives (CBO) and corporate social responsibility (SCR)

9.4. Lessons gained from this study case: toward a citizen democracy

9.5. Conclusion on crowd and social approaches

PART 4: Reformulating Future Thinking: Processes and Applications

10: Sustainability Engineering and Holism: Thinking Conditions are a Must

10.1. Introduction to holism

10.2. Toward a holistic company

10.3. Culture: on what positive factors can we rely?

10.4. Sustainability: a framework

10.5. Application: holonic industrial systems

10.6. Consequences

11: Sustainable Cognitive Engineering: Brain Modeling

Evolution of a Knowledge Base

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Sustainable cognition: definition and concepts

11.3. Concepts and "slippage" needs: effects related to new generations.

11.4. Basic structure of our brain: a probabilistic approach

11.5. Application and probabilistic reasoning in updating a knowledge base: a more sustainable model

11.6. Sustainable cognition: brain structure, understanding micro-to-macro links

11.7. More recent developments

11.8. Detection of novelties through adaptive learning and fractal chaos approaches

11.9. Neuro computing: new opportunities provided by quantum physics

11.10. Applications

11.11. Quantum physics: impact on future organizations

12: Brain and Cognitive Computing: Where Are We Headed?

12.1. State of the art

12.2. Achievements: is neuroscience able to explain how to perform sustained assumptions and studies?

12.3. Artificial brain: evolution of the simulation models

12.4. Examples of challenges to be well controlled

PART 5: Towards an Approach to the Measurement of Sustainability and Competitivity

13: On Measuring Sustainability

13.1. Introduction

13.2. Some basic criteria specific to the new "Sustainable" era

13.3. What are the nature and limits of the new paradigm, in terms of sustainability evolution?

13.4. A reminder about competitivity and sustainability properties

13.5. Synthesis: the present dimensions of a production system

13.6. An under-assessed value: time

13.7. Application and results

13.8. Two new dimensions: thought and information within network theory

13.9. Synthesis: cognitive advances provided by the new exchange and communication tools

13.10. Consequences and characteristics linked to a global network notion

13.11. Back to the code of matter: contributions to "Simultaneous Time" and "Network Theory"

13.12. Application of quantum interactions

13.13. Sustainability: how to widen the scope of competitiveness indicators?

13.14. Conclusion.

13.15. Social interactions and massively multiplayer online role playing games

General Conclusion - Where Are We Now?

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781119232506

1119232503

9781119232476

1119232473

9781119232483

1119232481

OCLC:

926071074