This absorbing book provides a broad introduction to the surprising nature of change, and explains how the Law of Unintended Consequences arises from the waves of change following one simple change. Change is a constant topic of discussion, whether be it on climate, politics, technology, or any of the many other changes in our lives. However, does anyone truly understand what change is?Over time, mankind has deliberately built social and technology based systems that are goal-directed - there are goals to achieve and requirements to be met. Building such systems is man's way of planning for the future, and these plans are based on predicting the behavior of the system and its environment, at specified times in the future. Unfortunately, in a truly complex social or technical environment, this planned predictability can break down into a morass of surprising and unexpected consequences. Such unpredictability stems from the propagation of the effects of change through the influence of one event on another.The Nature of Change explains in detail the mechanism of change and will serve as an introduction to complex systems, or as complementary reading for systems engineering. This textbook will be especially useful to professionals in system building or business change management, and to students studying systems in a variety of fields such as information technology, business, law and society.
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Students studying systems such as information technology, business, legal or social systems; professionals and academics in system building or business change management.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-1-84816-540-3 (9781848165403)
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Dr John Mansfield worked in the field of food sensitivity and ecological medicine from 1976, when he became one of three original British pioneers. In 1978 he was a founder member of the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine (now the British Society for Ecological Medicine) and became its President from 1992 to 1995. He gained his medical degree at Guy's Hospital, London, and worked in both the UK and the USA, retiring from active practice in 2012
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Univ Of South Australia, Australia
What Do We Mean By Change?; Some Definitions; Failure by Design; Influence, Boundaries and Structure; Change in Complex Systems; Propagation; Simulation; What Do We Do When A Change Is Indicated?; Implementing a System; Co-evolutionary Change in the Real World; In the Future.
