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Intelligent Organizations

Powerful Models for Systemic Management

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Markus Schwaninger

    1. Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  • Offers an innovative approach to problems of management in the face of complexity
  • Introduces a powerful tool, grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics
  • Differs from many conventional organizational references because of its systems approach
  • Can benefit any kind of organization, private or public, non-profit, large or small

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms

    Pages 1-9

  3. Complexity and Understanding

    Pages 11-21

  4. Management — A Distributed Function

    Pages 23-33

  5. Intelligent Organization — A Systemic Framework

    Pages 35-45

  6. Activities: What the Organization Does

    Pages 47-79

  7. Structure — Preconditions for Effective Action

    Pages 81-109

  8. Behavior — The Control of Cognition and Emotion

    Pages 111-134

  9. Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations

    Pages 135-169

  10. Time and Organizational Dynamics

    Pages 171-184

  11. The Framework Revisited

    Pages 185-208

  12. Outlook: The Way Ahead

    Pages 209-212

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-240
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About this book

This is not a book about how to run a company. It is about how to look at the world differently. Ultimately, this will help the reader to deal with complexity more effectively. The market today is flooded with books which claim to show paths to higher organizational effectiveness. Most of these recommendations are given as ”recipes for success“ and on pragmatic grounds. This book, however, is targeted at all those who want access to the p- erful models of systemic management in order to improve their skills in coping with complexity. The contents are of interest to people who deal with organizations – as leaders and managers or specialists, or as advanced students. The purpose is to give them conceptual and methodological guidelines by means of which they can Increase the "intelligence" of existing organizations by introducing or substituting a better design; Shape new organizations so that they are "intelligent" from the very start.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Markus Schwaninger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intelligent Organizations

  • Book Subtitle: Powerful Models for Systemic Management

  • Authors: Markus Schwaninger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29877-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29877-9Published: 08 September 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Organization, Management

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