Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Gharajedaghi Jamshid)(Paperback)

Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Gharajedaghi Jamshid)(Paperback)

Systems Thinking, Third Edition combines systems theory and interactive design to provide an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. This new edition has been updated to include all new chapters on

Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy (Tiwana Amrit)(Paperback)

Platform Ecosystems is a hands-on guide that offers a complete roadmap for designing and orchestrating vibrant software platform ecosystems. Unlike software products that are managed, the evolution of ecosystems and their myriad participants must be orchestrated through a thoughtful alignment of

Design: A Business Case: Thinking, Leading, and Managing by Design (Borja De Mozota Brigitte)(Paperback)

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills-to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.Design thinking is a framework developed to ensure C-suite endorsement of the pursuit of design

Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation (Burgess Mark)(Paperback)

Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a

Business Information Systems - Technology, Development and Management for the Modern Business (Bocij Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (Liedtka Jeanne)(Pevná vazba)

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: 'design thinking,' or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, unpack

Managing Organizational Change: A Practical Toolkit for Leaders (Campbell Helen)(Paperback)

With new technology, global markets and increased regulation, the pace and complexity of change is increasing, making it harder for organizations to maintain a competitive advantage. With the constant scrutiny on investments, it is imperative to learn how to easily and reliably deliver the benefits

Ethernet: The Definitive Guide: Designing and Managing Local Area Networks (Spurgeon Charles E.)(Paperback)

Get up to speed on the latest Ethernet capabilities for building and maintaining networks for everything from homes and offices to data centers and server machine rooms. This thoroughly revised, comprehensive guide covers a wide range of Ethernet technologies, from basic operation to network

Controlling the Chaos: A Functional Framework for Enterprise Architecture and Governance (Fox Robert)(Paperback)

Controlling the Chaos uses a deceptively simple 'functional framework' approach that builds upon the groundwork laid down by Zachman, NIST, Spewack, TOGAF, COBIT, and ITIL, to create a vision of IT management that is easy to grasp and implement. Using this framework, the mind-numbing array of

Multiprofessional Communication: Making Systems Work for Children (Glenny Georgina)(Paperback / softback)

The book draws on complexity theory to provide the analytical tools for exploring and developing the communication systems that underpin effective multiprofessional

Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services (Burns Brendan)(Paperback)

Without established design patterns to guide them, developers have had to build distributed systems from scratch, and most of these systems are very unique indeed. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components

The Design Thinking Quick Start Guide: A 6-Step Process for Generating and Implementing Creative Solutions (Osann Isabell)(Paperback)

A brief, beautiful introduction to Design Thinking that inspires business creativity and innovative solutions The Design Thinking Quick Start Guide: A 6-Step Process for Generating and Implementing Creative Solutionsshows you how you and your team can become more creative. This book presents

Deductive Systems and the Decidability Problem for Hybrid Logics (Zawidzki Michal)(Paperback)

This book stands at the intersection of two topics: the decidability and computational complexity of hybrid logics, and the deductive systems designed for them. Hybrid logics are here divided into two groups: standard hybrid logics involving nominals as expressions of a separate sort, and

Learning to Think Strategically (Sloan Julia)(Paperback)

Strategic thinking has become a core competency for business leaders globally. Overused and under-defined, the term is often used interchangeably with other strategic management terms. This textbook delineates and defines strategic thinking as an advanced, conceptual cognitive capability, focusing

Managing Data Quality: A practical guide (King Tim)(Paperback)

Data is an increasingly important business asset and enabler for organisational activities. Data quality is a key aspect of data management and failure to understand it increases organisational risk and decreases efficiency and profitability. This book explains data quality management in practical

Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos (Wiggins Stephen)(Paperback)

This volume is intended for advanced undergraduate, graduates and researchers as an introduction to applied nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The author has placed emphasis on teaching the techniques and ideas which will enable students to take specific dynamical systems and obtain some quantitative

USB Embedded Hosts: The Developer's Guide (Axelson Jan)(Paperback)

A guide for designing and programming small, embedded systems that access USB devices, this book includes topics such as how embedded USB hosts differ from USB hosts in PCs, choosing a hardware and programming platform for a project, understanding USB host programming in embedded Linux systems, how

Modelling Business Information: Entity Relationship and Class Modelling for Business Analysts (Gordon Keith)(Paperback)

It is almost universally accepted that requirements documents for new or enhanced IT systems by business analysts should include a 'data model' to represent the information that has to be handled by the system. Starting from first principles, this book will help business analysts to develop the

Network and Protocol Architectures for Future Satellite Systems (de Cola Tomaso)(Paperback)

Since their conception satellites have offered the promise of more capacity for terrestrial communication systems or to exploit their inherent multicasting and broadcasting capabilities. Recent advances in satellite technology have resulted in the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks

Designing Buildings for People: Sustainable Liveable Architecture (Clements-Croome Derek)(Paperback)

Our built environments can affect us in many subtle ways. Simply sensing fresh air and natural light or seeing greenery and open space can uplift our mood and improve our wellbeing. But these healthy environments are increasingly difficult to achieve in practice. The vital collaboration between the

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity: Second Edition (Sethna James)(Paperback)

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and engineering -- avoiding extensive use of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular physics. Statistical

Sorted!: Essential systems for successful small businesses (Jennings Alice)(Paperback)

Running a small business can take over your life but it doesn't have to be that way. Choosing and using the right technology and systems can transform the way your business works and this book shows you

Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions (Drucker Peter F.)(Paperback)

The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic work, The Practice of Management. Managing for Results shows what the

Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems (McShea Daniel W.)(Paperback)

Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation: adaptation-the marvelous fit between organism and environment; diversity-the great variety of organisms; and complexity-the enormous intricacy of their internal structure. Natural selection explains adaptation. But