http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/ Summaries of Project Management Research Studies Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:31:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/#comment-52 Projects + Management = The Project-Management Blog » Blog Archive » Preparing project managers to deal with complexity (Thomas & Mengel, 2008) and Preparing the mind for dynamic management (Hartman, 2008) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:36:07 +0000 http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/#comment-52 [...] a meme that just doesn’t want to die. I wrote before about articles on the foundamentals of complexity theory and project management, about the use of autonomous cells in project organisations and how they prevent complex project [...] […] a meme that just doesn’t want to die. I wrote before about articles on the foundamentals of complexity theory and project management, about the use of autonomous cells in project organisations and how they prevent complex project […]

]]> http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/#comment-14 Projects + Management = The Project-Management Blog » Can Project Management Learn Anything from Studies of Failure in Complex Systems? (Ivory & Alderman, 2005) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:54:13 +0000 http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/#comment-14 [...] article is similar to the Cooke-Davis et al. from 2007. In this article Ivory & Alderman describe complex systems as being tightly coupled [...] […] article is similar to the Cooke-Davis et al. from 2007. In this article Ivory & Alderman describe complex systems as being tightly coupled […]

]]> http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/#comment-13 Milton Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:09:56 +0000 http://blog.budzier.com/2008/08/11/were-not-in-kansas-anymore-toto-mapping-the-strange-landscape-of-complexity-theory-and-its-relationship-to-project-management-cooke-davis-et-al-2007/#comment-13 I liked the sketch. As an ongoing student and practitioner of complex adaptive approaches to leadership and innovation, the need to nurture conditions and increase adaptation is a more central role for leaders (requiring specific skills and mindset) in changing conditions than the more common command-control model. CC is most common where efficiencies are a driver, although CC practice is so costly to humans that it will hopefully, over time, be seen as a very immature stage of organizational design. I liked the sketch. As an ongoing student and practitioner of complex adaptive approaches to leadership and innovation, the need to nurture conditions and increase adaptation is a more central role for leaders (requiring specific skills and mindset) in changing conditions than the more common command-control model. CC is most common where efficiencies are a driver, although CC practice is so costly to humans that it will hopefully, over time, be seen as a very immature stage of organizational design.

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