The Third Lens

Multi-Ontology Sense-Making and Strategic Decision-Making
Herausgeber: Aaltonen, Mika

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Advancing new sense-making tools for organizational strategy, this book demonstrates how to deal with asymmetric threats and opportunities. Written for 21st century strategists, it will benefit people and organizations who struggle daily with multiple co-existing ontological, epistemological and methodological discourses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780754647980
• ISBN-10: 0754647986
• Artikelnr.: 23293597

Autorenporträt

Mika Aaltonen is Head and Chairman of the Board of StraX (the research unit for strategic intelligence and exploration of futures) at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction - before this book was written. Part 1 Re-Setting Our Thoughts: Strategic decision-making - how it is
and how it used to be
Mika Aaltonen; Making sense of the past
present and future
Mika Aaltonen; Sense-making in relation to time and the strategic landscape
Mika Aaltonen. Part 2 Modelling Sense-Making: A foresight model for evaluating long-term growth: Formel-G
Stefan Bergheim; A political early warning-response system to address global and regional threats
Tapio Kanninen; Platforms
pieces and probabilities - introducing the 3P-model
Mika Aaltonen. Part 3 Revisiting Causal Theory: Sensitiveness to initial conditions: reconceptualising cause
Mika Aaltonen and T. Irene Saunders; Making sense of a complex world
Paul Cilliers; The emergence of final cause
Eve Mitleton-Kelly. Part 4 Conclusions: Conclusions - after this book was written
Mika Aaltonen; Bibliography; Index.