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The agile organization: from informal networks to complex effects and agility / Simon Reay Atkinson, James Moffat

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Information age transformation seriesPublication details: Washington DC: US Dept of Defense,CCRP, 2005Description: xxii, 211 pISBN:
  • 189372316X (pbk)
Subject(s): Summary: 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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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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