1st Edition
Systems Architecting of Organizations Why Eagles Can't Swim
By Eberhardt Rechtin
Copyright 2000
280 Pages
by
CRC Press
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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The most difficult questions facing organizations today do not have scientifically or mathematically provable solutions. Many answers that do exist depend upon time and circumstance. Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swim tackles a very difficult dilemma: how do even highly respected organizations maintain their vaunted excellence, accommodate the new world of global... Read more
PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION
Why Eagles Can't Swim
TREATING ORGANIZATIONS AS SYSTEMS
The Unusual Field of Complex Systems
Emergent Capabilities and Values of Systems and Organizations
AN ARCHITECT'S PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE
The Market Place and Other Battlegrounds
"Delicate Balancing" in and by the United States Government
INTERNAL CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Unstated Assumptions and Other Subliminals Different Structures, Different Rules, and, Consequently, Different Capabilities
Decision Making in Complex Organizations
THE FOUNDATIONS OF SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTING
The Context and Use of System Insights and Metaphors
Architecting A Reorganization and Forming its Architecting Team
STAY THE COURSE OR CHANGE IT?
The Why and When of Architectural Change
The What and How of Radical Change
APPENDICES
Propositions for Organizational Architecting
A Listing of Insights
Annotated List of Citations
INDEX
Why Eagles Can't Swim
TREATING ORGANIZATIONS AS SYSTEMS
The Unusual Field of Complex Systems
Emergent Capabilities and Values of Systems and Organizations
AN ARCHITECT'S PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE
The Market Place and Other Battlegrounds
"Delicate Balancing" in and by the United States Government
INTERNAL CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Unstated Assumptions and Other Subliminals Different Structures, Different Rules, and, Consequently, Different Capabilities
Decision Making in Complex Organizations
THE FOUNDATIONS OF SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTING
The Context and Use of System Insights and Metaphors
Architecting A Reorganization and Forming its Architecting Team
STAY THE COURSE OR CHANGE IT?
The Why and When of Architectural Change
The What and How of Radical Change
APPENDICES
Propositions for Organizational Architecting
A Listing of Insights
Annotated List of Citations
INDEX
Biography
Rechtin, Eberhardt
