April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
728 pages
28h 12m
English
Content preview from Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity
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Type D Systems Approaches for Organizational Complexity
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better
(Taleb 2013, loc. 436).
Some systems approaches are primarily interested in managing organizational complexity. Organizational complexity is seen as driven both by the internal interactions of the parts of a system and by the interactions between the system and its turbulent environment. These, often unpredictable interactions make it very difficult to steer the system toward goals. The viability of the system becomes of central concern and also its ability to reconfigure itself to take advantage of new opportunities. Provision must be made for appropriate arrangements for the different parts and levels of the system in order that the relationships between the subsystems, the system itself and its environment can best be managed. The aim is to ensure that the organization can survive and thrive over time. Two systems approaches are worthy of particular attention under this heading:
- Socio‐Technical Systems Thinking
- Organizational Cybernetics and the Viable System Model
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