Explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. This book develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find different ways of managing drift.
Explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. This book develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find different ways of managing drift.
Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Previously Professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Director of the Leonardo Da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking there, he gained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA. He has worked in New Zealand, the Netherlands and England, been Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Visiting Academic in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne, and Professor of Community Health Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Canada. Sidney is author of several best-selling books on system failure, human error, ethics and governance. He has been flying the Boeing 737NG part-time as airline pilot for the past few years. The OSU Foundation in the United States awards a yearly Sidney Dekker Critical Thinking Award.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Preface Failure is always an option Features of drift The legacy of Newton and Descartes The search for the broken component Theorizing drift What is complexity and systems thinking? Managing the complexity of drift Bibliography Index.
Contents: Preface Failure is always an option Features of drift The legacy of Newton and Descartes The search for the broken component Theorizing drift What is complexity and systems thinking? Managing the complexity of drift Bibliography Index.
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