By Raul Espejo
ISBN-10: 3642191088
ISBN-13: 9783642191084
This e-book clarifies the appliance of cybernetic principles, quite these of Beer's potential procedure version, to organizational prognosis and layout. Readers learn how to delight in the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the realm. The booklet argues that a number of the difficulties we event this day are routed in our perform of fragmenting that that should be attached as an entire. It deals a mode to review and layout firms and a strategy to accommodate implementation difficulties. it's the consequence of a long time of operating event with executive places of work in addition to with every kind of private and non-private firms. At a extra specific point this e-book bargains a detailed dialogue of sort engineering that isn't on hand both within the basic or secondary literature.
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This question is at the core of this book and will be discussed in depth in Chap. 11. We hope that readers will come out with References 17 their own answer as triggered by the reading of this book. However, we may offer as a provoking starter the following comments (Espejo 1994). We claim that systemic thinking is a particular way of approaching issues of concern that includes seeing wholes. System thinking is a way of thinking that sees phenomena in context. It is a way of thinking that alerts us about networks of interactions producing wholes.
But, there are two other problems to be solved. The second one could be established as follows: given that a receiver successfully received a message, how can we assure that the meaning she or he ascribes to it is the same as the one ascribed by the sender? The third problem could be stated in the following way: given that a message successfully reached a receiver and given that she or he ascribes the same meaning as the one originally ascribed by the sender, how can we ensure that the receiver of the message responds to the sender’s expectations?
What we can do, however, is to define and agree on different criteria for the study of complexity of situations pertaining to different domains; like counting the different types of cells in animals or establishing the different kinds of agents and their relationships in a national economy. All these metrics for measuring the complexity of something, however, are a particular instance of our general definition of complexity as the number of distinctions made in a situation. Let us move on from this general appreciation of situational complexity to its more rigorous definition with the support of the idea of a system.