Project Management at the Edge of Chaos Social Techniques for Complex Systems /

• Main Authors: Oswald, Alfred (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Köhler, Jens (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Schmitt, Roland (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Management information systems.; Computer science.; Leadership.; Application software.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Computer Applications.; Personality and Social Psychology.

Complexity is a gift that can be made available for the successful implementation of projects, and used to create a new order or to change an existing one. Based on scientific facts, the authors present a systematic approach, which integrates complexity and its multitude of facets and gives practica...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction Social techniques and complexity
• Value-creating and value-destroying complexity
• Means of complexity regulation
• Organizational control and ordering parameters (fluide organization)
• Shielding of complexity
• Self-organization
• Leadership in complex social systems
• Consequences for management systems (including agile, lean)
• Glossary
• Index.