Managing Complex Systems: Thinking Outside the Box
暫譯: 管理複雜系統:跳出框架思考
Howard Eisner
- 出版商: Wiley
- 出版日期: 2005-09-27
- 售價: $3,340
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,173
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 216
- 裝訂: Hardcover
- ISBN: 0471690066
- ISBN-13: 9780471690061
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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:**
九種創新的方法來跳出框架,解決複雜系統問題
《管理複雜系統》提供了成為更具創造力和創新思維者所需的具體工具和指導。根據作者的方法論,讀者將能夠更好地設計和實施非傳統的解決方案,以應對看似無法解決的複雜問題。通過挑戰讀者以新的創造性方式思考,本書提供了一條通往成功的路徑,無論是以競爭優勢、市場佔有率的提升、生產力的改善,還是更高的利潤來衡量,這一切都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,探討大型系統和複雜性的本質、框內和框外的思考,以及發明性思維如何在管理和科學領域解決問題的範例。隨後的章節介紹了作者制定的九種專注方法,幫助讀者跳出框架思考:
* 擴大和概括
* 跨界
* 質疑傳統智慧
* 信封背面
* 擴展維度
* 反向思考
* 移除限制
* 圖像思考
* 系統方法
每種方法都提供了現實生活中的範例,展示了這些方法如何增強系統開發和管理中的問題解決和決策能力。在討論完九種方法後,作者還探討了群體決策以及其他研究者提出的創造性思維程序,並提供參考資料以幫助深入探索這些方法。作者以一章總結結束,該章包括一個測試,幫助讀者練習他們在解決現實問題時的創造性思維技能和行動傾向。
本書中討論的九種方法具有廣泛的適用性,並且可以被擁有各種業務和技術責任的管理者成功使用。對於任何厭倦了老一套方法和老一套結果的人來說,這本書是必讀之作。
**目錄:**
前言。
1. 系統與思考。
2. 建立與管理系統。
3. 值得思考的問題。
4. 發明的思維。
5. 觀點1:擴大和概括。
6. 觀點2:跨界。
7. 觀點3:質疑傳統智慧。
8. 觀點4:信封背面。
9. 觀點5:擴展維度。
10. 觀點6:反向思考。
11. 觀點7:移除限制。
12. 觀點8:圖像思考。
13. 觀點9:系統方法。
14. 團體思考。
15. 擴大圈子。
16. 最後的思考與測試。
索引。