Author: John L Mariotti
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: crippling, company, customers, markets, crisis, products, complexity
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1598692143
ISBN-13: 9781598692143

Many companies today are in crisis. In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, they have created dozens of new products and services while increasing their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line profits. The Complexity Crisis shows you how to streamline your business for greatest efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. You’ll learn how to: Target complexity in your organization and reduce or eliminate it Build a simple, effective corporate structure

Author: Gilles Paquet
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: governance, experimentalism, series, plea, failures, epistemologies, crippling
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2009-04-18
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0776607030
ISBN-13: 9780776607030

In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures Gilles Paquet attacks the dominant practices of the social sciences and their reliance on inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence, and inquiry, which have become methodological and ideological "mental prisons". He argues that governance and social arrangements based on these platforms result in weak information infrastructure, poor accountability, and inadequate organizational design, and that these arrangements ultimately fail. He rejects borrowing approaches from the physical sciences and suggests that a richer perspective less crippled