This paper seeks to establish a model in which complexity can be positioned in the context of other management disciplines, in such a way as to effectively communicate to executives in industry and their equivalents in government the importance of applying complexity thinking. It also seeks to differentiate what is termed ‘social complexity’ from ‘mathematical complexity’ in the context of the development of management science. The background to this completed study for the European Commission entitled “Business Needs and Technology Trends in Knowledge Management” [BNET Annotation]
Editor’s Note: the writing style of this article is seriously dry and the introduction painfully long (you can skip it safely), but the model presented toward the middle pages is worthwhile…
Authors: David Snowden, Peter Stanbridge
Source: Cynefin Center for Organizational Complexity
Subjects: Management, Strategy
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