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Kybernetes [electronic resource] : . Volume 39, Number 9/10, 2012 special issue on model-based management / guest editors, Markus Schwaninger and Jose Perez Rios.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Kybernetes ; v. 39, no. 9/10.
- Kybernetes ; vol. 39, no. 9/10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Management.
- Organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Model-based management
- Place of Publication:
- [Bingley, UK] : Emerald, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 confronting complexity, the more will their performance depend on the quality of the models underlying their activity: More than ever do they need orientation, and that is what good models can provide.In this e-book we set model-based management in the context of general management with an emphasis o
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- "The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-98720-8
- 9786612987205
- 0-85724-572-4
- OCLC:
- 700706498
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