Organized complexity in business: understanding, concepts and tools
This book explores a most central phenomenon in our contemporary businesses and organization, the growing complexity in business. Economic growth and growth of complexity always have been inseparable, but the last decennia the growth of complexity appears to outrun our growth of knowledge and unders...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book explores a most central phenomenon in our contemporary businesses and organization, the growing complexity in business. Economic growth and growth of complexity always have been inseparable, but the last decennia the growth of complexity appears to outrun our growth of knowledge and understanding. For success and continuity, the modern firm in the developing complexity of its markets and societal contexts must have the capacity to master and exploit a commensurate level of complexity in its internal organization. This book is the first of its kind to help the reader to understand the different types of complexity and the different concepts and tools to deal with each of them in business administration, strategy, and organization. This book offers the reader a fresh perspective on conventional concepts and tools in the field of business administration and bridges these to new concepts as are being used to exploit new complexities. In the process, the reader becomes familiarwith the rich cybernetic concept of information, as a basis for the information-based organization and to master big data. With that complex decision-making is clarified and a fresh understanding of the core function of the organization, coordination, is offered for those who want to solve the issue of self-coordination. The book provides working examples but even more the strongest tool to master and to reduce complexity: a deeper and broader understanding of what is going on beneath the surface of what we experience daily. This book builds on Herbert Simon’s hypothesis of simplicity: ‘to use the simplicity of process to deal with the complexity of state.’ |
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Contents Part I Understanding Complexity and the Economy 1 Introduction. 1.1 The Newness of this Book. 1.2 What this Book Is About. 1.3 Objective of this Book. Bibliography. 3 3 6 7 7 2 Complexity 3.0. 2.1 The Usefulness of Complexity. 2.2 Different Types of Complexity. 2.3 Why Complexity Theory?. 2.3.1 Obsolete Assumptions. 2.3.2 Institutionally Induced Complexity. 2.3.3 Complexity of Objectives. 2.3.4 Control Without Being Controlled. 2.3.5 Complexity as Provenance. 2.4 Complexity Theory and the Changing Nature of the Firm. . . 2.5 New Options to Organize. 2.6 A First Understanding of Organizational Complexity. 2.7 From Modem Complexity to Post-modem Complexity.
Bibliography. 9 9 11 13 13 14 15 17 18 19 21 23 25 28 3 Simplicity and Complexity. 3.1 Our Need for Simplicity. 3.2 Two Types of Simplicity. 3.3 Simplicity and Perspective. 3.4 Simplicity Versus Limited Complexity. 3.5 Dominant Logic. 3.6 Complexity and Language. 3.7 The Paradox of Traditional System Thinking. Bibliography. 31 31 34 36 38 39 41 45 47 4 Definitions of Complexity. 4.1 The Complexity of Complexity. 51 51 ix
X Contents Complexity and Systems Thinking . Complexity, Cybernetics, and Control. Types of Complexity. 4.4.1 Detail Complexity Versus Dynamic Complexity . 4.4.2 Objective Complexity and Subjective Complexity. 4.4.3 Disorganized Complexity and Organized Complexity. 65 4.4.4 Overview of Types of Complexities and Their Handling. 68 4.5 Organic Organizations as Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems (ICAS). 70 Bibliography. 52 54 60 61 63 Economic Growth, Complexity, and Institutional Conflicts. 5.1 How Complexity Contributes to Economic Growth. 5.2 Moderating Variables. 5.3 The Limitation of Intuitive Management Books. 5.4 A Conceptual Model for Economic Complexity. Bibliography. 83 83 88 89 91 93 4.2 4.3 4.4 5 Part II 79 Organizational Complexity 6 Information and Complexity. 6.1 The Paradox of the Information Society. 6.2 Discursive
Information and Disinformation. 6.3 The Cybernetic Concept of Information. 6.3.1 Goal-Information. 6.3.2 Motivation or Axiological Information. 6.3.3 Material Information. 6.3.4 Eidetic Information. 6.3.5 Accountability Information. 6.3.6 Allelopathic Information. 6.3.7 Interface Information. 6.3.8 Causal Information and Conceptual Information . 6.3.9 Pragmatic Information. 6.3.10 Transaction Information (TransactionData). 6.3.11 Reproductive Information. 6.4 Complexity and Information. Bibliography. 97 97 101 106 106 108 1Ю ИЗ 117 118 И9 119 127 129 133 134 135 7 Complex Decision-Making. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 What Is a Decision?. 7.3 What Is a Decision-Problem?. 7.4
Well-Structured Problems. 7.5 Why By and Large Is Decision-Making Successful?. 139 139 139 140 142 156
Contents xi What Is a Complex Decision-Problem?. 7.6.1 Ill-Defined Complexity. 7.7 Different Types of Complex Decision-Problems. 7.7.1 A Perspective on Complex Decision-Problems. . 7.7.2 Professional Induced Complex Decision-Problems. . 7.7.3 Reflexivity Complex Decisions. 7.7.4 Decision-Rights Complexity. 7.7.5 Epistemological Complex Decision-Problems. 7.7.6 Discovery Versus Justification Complexity. 7.7.7 Temporality of Complex Decision-Problems. Bibliography. 158 158 161 161 164 165 166 168 169 170 170 Complexity and Coordination. 8.1 Complexity and Coordination. 8.1.1 Does Complexity Substitute for Coordination?. . 8.2 How Is Coordination Achieved?. 8.3 Coordination in Complex Organizations. 8.4 Coordination at the Fifth Level of Complexity: Stigmergic Coordination. 190 8.4.1 Is Coordination Possible in High Complex Organizations?. 8.4.2 A Kind of Fluidity. 8.4.3 The Complexity of
Interaction. 8.4.4 Stigmergic Coordination. 8.4.5 The Upside and the Downside of Free Interaction. . 8.4.6 Managing the Risks in Free Interaction. 8.5 Complexity of Markets, Products, and Consumers. Bibliography. 175 175 175 178 186 7.6 8 Part III 190 191 195 199 202 205 206 211 Complexity in Practice 9 Examples of Mastering Complexity. 9.1 Complexity and Learning from Successful Cases. 9.2 The Case IBM. 9.3 The Case Procter Gamble. 9.4 The GIOCA Expert Centre in Amsterdam. Bibliography. 219 219 221 222 223 224 10 How CEOs Cope with Complexity. 10.1 CEOs and Complexity. 10.2 The Power and Risks of Abstract Thinking. 10.3 CEO Turnover and Complexity. 10.4 Simplicity Beyond the (New) Complexity. 10.5 They Wade Into Complexity. 10.6 Some Lessons from Successful
CEOs. 10.7 Complexity Leadership Versus Transactional Leadership. Bibliography. 225 225 227 234 235 236 238 238 239
xii 11 12 Contents Tools Executives Use to Deal with Uncertainty and Complexity. . 11.1 What Connects a Variety of Tools?. 11.2 Mission. 11.3 A Hierarchy of Values. 11.4 Reconceptualizing, Refraining. 11.5 Holistic or System Thinking. 11.6 Scenario Planning. 11.7 Preparedness and Rolling Forecasts. 11.8 The Organic Organization. 11.9 Multidimensional Information. 11.10 Information-Based Empowerment. 11.11 Loose Control and Loose Programming. 11.12 Management Development and HR-Policy. 11.13 Architecture and Modularity. 11.14 The Resource Allocation Process. 11.15 Open Innovation and Open BusinessModels. 11.16 The Real Option Method, Phased Funding, and Discovery-Driven Planning. 266 11.17 Using Mathematical Models for Risk Management and Managing
Complexity. 267 11.18 The Concept of the Platform Organization. 11.19 Fast Feedback Information to Dealwith Complexity?. 11.19.1 Feedback as a Defining Element in Complexity?. . 11.19.2 The Cognitive Role of Feedback. 11.19.3 Types of Feedback Loops. 11.19.4 The Context of Feedback: Control. Bibliography. 243 243 244 245 246 248 250 251 253 256 257 259 261 262 264 265 Organization Design and Complexity. 12.1 Introduction: Is Complexity a Design Principle?. 12.2 How to Factor Complexity into Organization Design?. 12.3 Kanter’s Concept of the Modern Organization. 12.4 Complexity and the Design of Functions. 12.4.1 General. 12.4.2 The Design of the Customer Value Proposition and Operational Processes. 299 12.4.3 The Governance System. 12.4.4 Complexity and the (Strategic)Guidance System . . 12.4.5 Complexity and the Design of the Organization of Information. 313 12.4.6 Complexity and the Design of the Support
Functions. 12.5 Conclusion. Bibliography. 287 287 296 297 298 298 269 270 270 272 272 279 281 300 311 315 326 327
Contents xiii 13 Complexity and Management of Change. 13.1 The Butterfly-Effect. 13.2 Planned Change. 13.3 Organization Development. 13.4 The Emergent School for Change. 13.5 The General Management View on Change. 13.6 Systemic Change. Bibliography. 331 331 332 332 332 334 335 336 14 A Final Word. 337 Index. 339 |
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