- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- List of Acronyms
- Preface
- Introduction: Why “Transformation” Is the One Keyword
- I.1. Where have we got by now?
- I.2. What evolution forward?
- I.3. Tackling transformation is the job
- I.4. A summary of the book
- I.5. What the present situation tells and the issues encountered
- I.6. A main concept: toward new ways of thinking
- I.7. Integrating the above theories into their context
- I.8. Application on an example relevant to entropy and network theory
- I.9. A basket of relevant keywords
- PART 1: Models That Can Aspire to be Better Suited to Future Needs
- 1: Disassembling Some Traditional Views
- 2: Is Globalization, or Holism, Really a New Phenomenon?
- 2.1. Some characteristics of the present globalization
- 2.2. A brief history of a very old concept: globalization
- 2.3. The nature of today’s globalization
- 2.4. Some features of today’s globalization
- 2.5. Impacts of a disruption: “catastrophe” in a global context
- 2.6. Management in economy: risks and disturbances are also global
- 2.7. Extending and transposing these concepts to enterprises
- 2.8. Consequences: collective consciousness and behavior
- 2.9. A common idea of “catastrophism” and the need for ecology
- 2.10. Should we try to predict that the worst is yet to come?
- 2.11. What we can conclude at this stage
- 3: Underlying Disturbing Processes: Asymmetries, Coriolis and Chirality
- 3.1. By way of introduction
- 3.2. New ways of thinking
- 3.3. Information asymmetry
- 3.4. Information asymmetry in a call center business
- 3.5. General Information on asymmetry: antiglobalization corporations
- 3.6. Asymmetry in communication and decision systems
- 3.7. Decision-making in an asymmetric world
- 3.8. Chirality and symmetry and their impact on structures
- 3.9. The Coriolis effect
- 3.10. Characteristics of evolution: symmetric pattern growth
- 3.11. Conclusions on underlying disturbing processes
- 3.12. Appendix
- 4: Time and Space Revisited in the Context of Complex Systems
- 5: The Entropy of Systems
- 5.1. System entropy: general considerations
- 5.2. The issue and context of entropy within the framework of this book
- 5.3. Entropy: definitions and main principles – from physics to Shannon
- 5.4. Some application fields with consequences
- 5.5. Generalization of the entropy concept: link with sustainability
- 5.6. Proposal for a new information theory approach
- 5.7. Main conclusions
- PART 2: On Competitiveness: Nature as an Obvious Approach in Sustainability
- Introduction to Part 2
- 6: A Continuous Survival of Species? Crisis and Consciousness Productions
- 6.1. Introduction and general considerations: what’s new behind life?
- 6.2. Life survival: introduction and model transposition
- 6.3. Discussing the situation in between the three areas
- 6.4. Discussing the situation inside each of the three areas
- 6.5. Evolution of life: impact on management decision systems
- 6.6. Opening new thinking ways
- 6.7. Consciousness as an iterative feedback process growing from one level to another
- 6.8. Life and equilibriums in ecosystems
- 6.9 Conclusions
- 6.10. Consequences and action plan
- 7: Aging and Survival: Application to Human Beings, Eusociality and an Inclusive Society
- 7.1. A general consideration: what is new behind life?
- 7.2. A little bit more about aging, survival and eusociality
- 7.3. Does aging equal disability?
- 7.4. Aging and intelligence: variance and time dependency
- 7.5. Back to eusociality
- 7.6. As a first conclusion
- 7.7. Case study: aging, motivation and involvement in collaborative work
- 8: Evolution of Life Principles: Application to a Corporate Population
- 8.1. Introduction: corporate aging and dying
- 8.2. The human resources situation of small-and medium-sized enterprises
- 8.3. The human resources situation in senior enterprises
- 8.4. Global evolution: the product lifecycle of an enterprise
- 8.5. Product lifecycle management
- 8.6. Example of corporate life and death: the saturation stage
- 8.7. Product lifecycle of new technologies
- 8.8. How to model the evolution of an organism (enterprise)
- 8.9. How to measure and control aging in the enterprises
- Conclusion to Part 2: An Integrative View at Immortality
- PART 3: Golden Secrets and Mechanisms
- 9: Technology Totalitarianism in Society, Change Management and Governance Concerns
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Consequences associated with Web usage
- 9.3. Public–private governance: a privacy process issue
- 9.4. The principle of impermanence: Snapchat and Confide
- 9.5. Extension of the applications
- 9.6. Pervasive network interconnections
- 9.7. Enterprises: Web evolution and sustainability
- 9.8. Additional comments about the control of instabilities
- 9.9. Sustainable networks
- 10: Principles and Practical Mechanisms of Self-Organization: in a Worldwide Cooperative Context
- 11: Complex Systems Appraisal: Sustainability and Entropy in a Worldwide Cooperative Context
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. The context
- 11.3. Information systems: some application fields and the consequences
- 11.4. Evolution of entropy in complex systems
- 11.5. Underlying sustainability principles in information and decision
- 11.6. Business intelligence systems and entropy
- 11.7. The holonic enterprise paradigm
- 11.8. Self-organization and entropy
- 11.9. Analysis of new trends in sustainable production systems
- 11.10. Artificial life and collective thinking science
- 11.11. Conclusions
- 12: Telepathy and Telesympathy
- 9: Technology Totalitarianism in Society, Change Management and Governance Concerns
- Bibliography
- Index
- End User License Agreement
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Pierre Massotte
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