Organization/business, management, people and complexity – an approach to their integration

Issue title: Corporation: An Intelligent Complex Adaptive System

Guest editors: Thow Yick Liang

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Draman, Rexford H.

Affiliations: Graduate School of Management, St. Edward's University, 3001 S. Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas 78704, USA, Tel.: +1 512 428 1006; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: Like a growing number of individuals, the author believes that business is facing the same bifurcation point physics was facing before the development of quantum mechanics – trying to fit a Newtonian explanation onto a non-Newtonian problem. Given that perspective business needs a system-based model not more research and development on its Newtonian practices and beliefs. The focus of this paper focuses is on the development of such a framework. This paper draws on science to identify the necessary requirements for a living system and converts that into a three-entity framework. Through the conversion of this living-system framework the necessary requirements for a living business system are identified. With that, an assortment of currently available system-based business tools and techniques that fulfill most of the requirements of a living business system, are introduced. An approach to implementing these tools and techniques as well as remaining open for the incorporation of other systems-based practices is presented.

Keywords: Systems-based, living systems, business systems, theory of constraints, requisite organization, Knowledge Management

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2004-23205

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 101-110, 2004