The Complexity Advantage
How the Science of Complexity Can Help Your Business Achieve Peak Performance
by Susanne Kelly and Mary Ann Allison
Anyone who grasps the concepts in The Complexity Advantage will have the power to change a business in startling ways. ... These are big ideas. I strongly suspect that the insights of complexity science will blaze a bright new trail for business. And there is no better place to start than here."
Coauthor, Understanding Computers and Cognition
Dr. Fernando Flores, Chairman & CEO, Business Design Associates
Shows managers how to put the rich insights of complexity theory to work in everyday business management to improve strategic and financial results. A pleasure to read and will richly reward the reader's investment.
and Director, Xerox PARC
John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation
Finally, a book that reveals exactly how complexity theory really applies to business in the digital age. Fascinating, insightful, pragmatic and well written. Has helped me rethink the design of a knowledge ecology for Xerox PARC.
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McGraw-Hill/A Business Week Book $24.95 (Hardcover) / 0-07-001400-0 |
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256 pages |
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EAN: 9780070014008 |
Susanne Kelly is a vice president of Citibank.
Mary Ann Allison is chairman of The Allison Group and a popular international speaker..
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Mary Ann Allison and Susanne Kelly draw on their research at Citibank –a recognized pioneer in the successful application of Complexity science to the business world–to show managers how to use self-organization to make any business more successful. At last, fourteen very practical steps and an evolutionary model which will enable your business to reap the full power of the complexity sciences. The Complexity Advantage includes a concise, accurate, and easy-to-understand introduction to complexity sciences–written specifically for people in business. It tells you how and why complexity sciences can work in business. |
Geoff Squire, Vice Chairman, Veritas Software
Every chapter inspires an action–an action that will change your business.
Every honest leader will spot his or her own strengths and weaknesses in this book.
Dr. Stuart A. Kauffman, founding General Partner, Bios Group, best-selling author of At Home in the Universe
Susanne Kelly and Mary Ann Allison deserved to be taken seriously, read seriously, and thanked.
The Wall Street Journal
Thomas Petzinger, Jr.