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基本説明
Describing a next-generation organization designed to exhibit flexibility and agility.
Full Description
In this book David and Alex Bennet propose a new model for organizations that enables them to react more quickly and fluidly to today's fast-changing, dynamic business environment: the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (ICAS). ICAS is a new organic model of the firm based on recent research in complexity and neuroscience, and incorporating networking theory and knowledge management, and turns the living system metaphor into a reality for organizations. This book synthesizes new thinking about organizational structure from the fields listed above into ICAS, a new systems model for the successful organization of the future designed to help leaders and managers of knowledge organizations succeed in a non-linear, complex, fast-changing and turbulent environment. Technology enables connectivity, and the ICAS model takes advantage of that connectivity by fostering the development of dynamic, effective and trusting relationships in a new organizational structure.
This book outlines the model in chapter four, and then breaks down the model into its components in the next two chapters. This is a benefit to readers since different components of the model can be implemented at different times, so the book can guide implementation of one or all of the components as a manager sees fit. There are eight characteristics of the ICAS: organizational intelligence, unity and shared purpose, optimum complexity, selectivity, knowledge centricity, flow, permeable boundaries, and multi-dimensionality.
Contents
Moving Beyond the Bureaucratic Model; The Present and Future Danger or Why We Need To Change ; The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (ICAS); Exploring the Emergent Properties of ICAS; Relationships Among Emergent Properties; The Learning Structure of the New Organization; The Action Culture for Success; The Four Major Organizational Processes; The Art of Collaborative Leadership; Creating Emergence; The Change Agent's Strategy; Strategy, Balance and the Correlation of Forces; A Tale of Two Companies; The New Knowledge Worker; Knowledge Management; The Learning Organization; Learning, KM and Knowledge Workers; Rethinking Thinking: Systems; Rethinking Thinking: Complexity; Knowing; Networking for the Bottom Line; Exploring the Unknown; APPENDIX: The Evolution of the Organization. GLOSSARY;BIBLIOGRAPHY;INDEX
