Nature Of Change Or The Law Of Unintended Consequences, The: An Introductory Text To Designing Complex Systems And Managing Change (Hardcover)

This absorbing book provides a broad introduction to the surprising nature of change, and explains how the Law of Unintended Consequences arises from the waves of change following one simple change. Change is a constant topic of discussion, whether be it on climate, politics, technology, or any of the many other changes in our lives. However, does anyone truly understand what change is?Over time, mankind has deliberately built social and technology based systems that are goal-directed - there are goals to achieve and requirements to be met. Building such systems is man's way of planning for the future, and these plans are based on predicting the behavior of the system and its environment, at specified times in the future. Unfortunately, in a truly complex social or technical environment, this planned predictability can break down into a morass of surprising and unexpected consequences. Such unpredictability stems from the propagation of the effects of change through the influence of one event on another.The Nature of Change explains in detail the mechanism of change and will serve as an introduction to complex systems, or as complementary reading for systems engineering. This textbook will be especially useful to professionals in system building or business change management, and to students studying systems in a variety of fields such as information technology, business, law and society.

General

Imprint:	Imperial College Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	John Mansfield
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-84816-540-3
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Systems analysis & design Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > General
LSN:	1-84816-540-4
Barcode:	9781848165403

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