Foreword: Strategic Grazing Management for Complex Creative Systems

Strategic Management, Evolutionary Economics, and Complex Adaptive Systems

This chapter sketches a strategic map of a selection of the relevant issues at the intersection of economics, psychology, sociology, and evolutionary theories applied to strategic management. It takes an evolutionary complexity perspective, based on a (manageable) selection of the relevant literature. The discussion focuses on evolutionary processes of change and their implications for strategi...

Strategic Resilience Management Model: Complex Enterprise Systems Upgrade Implementation

Managing large and complex enterprise systems (ES) can be challenging due to the complexity of technical and other unforeseen issues. However, most of the existing scenarios are beyond typical safety margins and usually can have significant impacts on the operations and even survivability of the organization. We explore ‘resilience management’ as the mechanism and process that assists organizat...

Complex systems models for strategic decision making

A number of simulation techniques may be applied to strategy and decision-making. In using such techniques it is important to understand the role of models, in the context of the wider decision-making process which is largely a communal and political process; the choice of a particular approach or technique depends not only on the type of decision being considered, but also on the stage of the ...

Strategic Planning for Management Information Systems

Planning for the information systems in an organization generally has not been closely related to the overall strategic planning processes through which the organization prepares for its future. An M/S strategic planning process is conceptualized and illustrated as one which /inks the. organization’s "strategy set" tb an MIS "strategy set. " The literature of management information systems (MIS...

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