The agile organization: from informal networks to complex effects and agility /
ATKINSON Simon Rey
The agile organization: from informal networks to complex effects and agility / Simon Reay Atkinson, James Moffat - Washington DC: US Dept of Defense,CCRP, 2005 - xxii, 211 p. - Information age transformation series .
Written by an academic and a British naval officer this book "...looks at complexity, networks, and formal organizations from a British military and policy making perspective...it attempts to place the military in context so that it can better understand itself, the complex adaptive world it faces, the ways and means it may wish to aggregate, and how it is to be commanded and so controlled...to confront enemies of today and tomorrow adaptively, agilely, and with confidence." (Authors introduction). Considers informal networks, how they react with formal structures and gives some real examples.
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The agile organization: from informal networks to complex effects and agility / Simon Reay Atkinson, James Moffat - Washington DC: US Dept of Defense,CCRP, 2005 - xxii, 211 p. - Information age transformation series .
Written by an academic and a British naval officer this book "...looks at complexity, networks, and formal organizations from a British military and policy making perspective...it attempts to place the military in context so that it can better understand itself, the complex adaptive world it faces, the ways and means it may wish to aggregate, and how it is to be commanded and so controlled...to confront enemies of today and tomorrow adaptively, agilely, and with confidence." (Authors introduction). Considers informal networks, how they react with formal structures and gives some real examples.
189372316X (pbk)
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
CHANGE MANAGEMENT