From Complexity in the Natural Sciences to Complexity in Operations Management Systems (Systems of Systems Complexity Set, 1) - Hardcover

Briffaut, Jean-Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178630368X ISBN 13: 9781786303684

Publisher: Wiley-ISTE, 2019

Synopsis

Although complexity makes up the very fabric of our daily lives and has been more or less addressed in a wide variety of knowledge fields, the approaches developed in the Natural Sciences and the results obtained over the past century have not yet permeated Management Sciences very much.

The main features of the phenomena that the Natural Sciences deal with are: non-linear behavior, self-organization and chaos. They are analyzed with the framing of what is called “systems thinking”, popularized by the mindset pertaining to cybernetics. All pioneers in systems thinking either had direct or indirect connections with Biology, which is the discipline considered complex par excellence by the public.

When applying these concepts to Operations Management Systems and modeling organizations by BDI (Beliefs, Desires, Intentions) agents, the lack of predictability in the conduct of change management that is prone to bifurcations (tipping points) in terms of organizational structures and in forecasting future activities, reveals them to be ingrained in the interplay of complexity and chaos.

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About the Author

Jean-Pierre Briffaut holds a Doctorate in Physics from Paris University in France. He is a retired Professor of Operations Management at Institut Mines-Télécom and a Member of the Institut Fredrick Bull, where he currently leads a working group on the Complexity of Systems of Systems (SoS).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178630368X
• ISBN 13: 9781786303684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240