Managing Complex Systems: Thinking Outside the Box

Howard Eisner

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2005-09-27
  • 售價: $3,380
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$3,211
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0471690066
  • ISBN-13: 9780471690061
  • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

買這商品的人也買了...

商品描述

Description:

Nine innovative methods to think outside the box and solve complex system problems

Managing Complex Systems provides specific tools and guidance needed to be a more creative and innovative thinker. Following the author's methodology, the reader will be better able to devise and implement nontraditional solutions to seemingly intractable complex problems. By challenging the reader to think in new and creative ways, the book offers a road map to success, whether measured in terms of competitive advantage, greater market share, improved productivity, or higher profits, all based upon better solutions to difficult problems.

The first four chapters set the foundation for creative thinking by exploring the nature of large-scale systems and complexity, thinking inside and outside the box, and examples of how an inventive mind solves problems in both management and scientific domains. Subsequent chapters address nine focused methods that the author has formulated to help the reader think outside the box:
* Broaden and generalize
* Crossover
* Question conventional wisdom
* Back of the envelope
* Expanding the dimensions
* Obversity
* Remove constraints
* Thinking with pictures
* Systems approach

Real-life examples are provided for each method that demonstrate how the approach enhances problem solving and decision making in system development and management. Following the discussion of the nine methods, the author examines group decision making as well as additional creative thinking procedures devised by other researchers, including references that assist in exploring these methods in greater detail. The author ends with a wrap-up chapter that includes a test to help readers practice their tendencies toward creative thinking skills and action with respect to solving real-world problems.

The nine methods discussed in this book have broad applicability and can be used successfully by managers with a wide range of responsibilities in business and technology. For anyone who is tired of the same old approach with the same old results, this book is essential reading.

 

Table of Contents:

Preface.

1. Systems and Thinking.

2. Building and Managing Systems.

3. Problems to Ponder.

4. The Inventive Mind.

5. Perspective 1: Broaden and Generalize.

6. Perspective 2: Crossover.

7. Perspective 3: Question Conventional Wisdom.

8. Perspective 4: Back of the Envelope.

9. Perspective 5: Expanding the Dimensions.

10. Perspective 6: Obversity.

11. Perspective 7: Remove Constraints.

12. Perspective 8: Thinking with Pictures.

13. Perspective 9: The Systems Approach.

14. Thinking in Groups.

15. Widening the Circle.

16. Final Thoughts and a Test.

Index.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

描述:
《管理複雜系統》提供了九種創新方法,幫助讀者跳脫框架思考,解決複雜系統問題。本書提供了具體的工具和指導,讓讀者成為更有創造力和創新思維的人。按照作者的方法,讀者將能夠更好地制定和實施非傳統解決方案,解決看似棘手的複雜問題。通過挑戰讀者以新的和創造性的方式思考,本書提供了一條通往成功的路徑,無論是以競爭優勢、更大的市場份額、提高生產力還是更高的利潤為衡量標準,都是基於對困難問題的更好解決方案。

前四章為創造性思維奠定基礎,探討了大規模系統和複雜性的本質,內外部思維,以及創新思維如何在管理和科學領域解決問題的例子。接下來的章節介紹了九種專注方法,作者制定了這些方法來幫助讀者跳脫框架思考:
* 擴大和概括
* 交叉
* 質疑常識
* 背信封計算
* 擴展維度
* 反向思考
* 解除限制
* 圖像思維
* 系統方法

每種方法都提供了現實生活中的例子,展示了這種方法如何增強系統開發和管理中的問題解決和決策能力。在討論完這九種方法後,作者還探討了群體決策以及其他研究人員提出的創新思維程序,並提供了相關參考資料以便更深入地探索這些方法。作者最後以一個總結章節結束,其中包括一個測試,幫助讀者練習他們對創造性思維技巧和解決現實世界問題的傾向。

本書中介紹的九種方法具有廣泛的應用性,並且可以成功地應用於商業和技術領域中具有各種責任的管理人員。對於厭倦了相同舊方法和相同結果的人來說,這本書是必讀之選。

目錄:
前言
1. 系統和思維
2. 建立和管理系統
3. 值得思考的問題
4. 創新思維
5. 觀點1:擴大和概括
6. 觀點2:交叉
7. 觀點3:質疑常識
8. 觀點4:背信封計算
9. 觀點5:擴展維度
10. 觀點6:反向思考
11. 觀點7:解除限制
12. 觀點8:圖像思維
13. 觀點9:系統方法
14. 團體思考
15. 擴大圈子
16. 最後的思考和測試
索引