Another list that might warrant your attention is COMPLEX-M. It is
concerned with Chaos and Complexity Theory as applied to Business
Management. I have included some of the info below the sigfile.
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Subject: Welcome to Complex-M
Our purpose:
A shared language based on the new science of complexity can have an
important role in managerial sensemaking. The use of complexity theory can
change the way managers think about the problems they face. Instead of
competing in a game or a war, managers of a complexity thinking enterprise
are trying to find their way on an ever changing, ever turbulent landscape.
Such a conception of their organizations' basic task can, in turn, change
the day-to-day decisions made by management. The most productive
applications of complexity language have to do with new possibilities for
innovation. These possibilities require new ways of thinking, but old
models of thinking persist long after they are productive. New ways of
thinking don't just happen; they require both discussion and support.
Our list carries messages directed to:
??? Understanding complexity and complex adaptive systems, such as the
economy, business, and the marketplace,
??? Developing techniques for organizations to examine their models,
metaphors, and beliefs, and to adapt new ones as conditions change,
??? Creating strategies for businesses to interact with the unexpected,
accidental, and ambiguous in their environments,
??? Resolving the needs for both stability and creativity, and the
institutional tensions between "authorized" and "innovative," and
??? Examining individual issues and case studies as they emerge.
Please see the web archive at
http://HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/complex-m.html
or our lexicon of terms at
http://lissack.com/lexicon/lexicon.html
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