文档介绍：Systems Thinking:
Managing Chaos
plexity
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Systems Thinking:
Managing Chaos
plexity
A Platform for Designing
Business Architecture
SECOND EDITION
Jamshid Gharajedaghi
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Gharajedaghi, Jamshid.
Systems thinking : managing chaos plexity : a platform for designing
business architecture / Jamshid Gharajedaghi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7506-7163-7 (alk. paper)
1. System analysis. 2. Chaotic behavior in systems. 3. Industrial management.
4. plexity. I. Title.
1999
003—dc21
98-55939
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ISBN 13: 978-0-7506-7973-2
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