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Enterprise Agility
book

Enterprise Agility

by Sunil Mundra
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
490 pages
10h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
Audiobook available
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Chapter 3. The Enterprise as a Living System

This chapter is about the need to liberate the enterprise from the grip of the mechanistic model and the criticality of treating a business as a living system. The chapter also covers the key characteristics of living systems and their implications for a company.

For decades, enterprises have been modeled as closed-ended systems, the rationale for which is discussed in this chapter. Closed-ended systems, for example, machines, are largely insulated from the external environment and incapable of learning on their own. Hence, although they are highly predictable and stable, systems are not capable of sensing, responding, and adapting to changes in the environment. Open-ended systems, also known as living ...

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