Understanding Complexity

Image from Management 3.0 ch.3

Simple = Easily understandable

Complicated = Very hard to understand

 

Ordered = Fully predictable

Complex = Somewhat predictable (but with many surprises)

Chaotic = Very unpredictable

know your terrain

Making a shovel (simple terrain)

Ordered Problem

cooking the best chicken (rigid terrain)

Ordered Problem

stock market (dancing terrain)

Complex Problem

we live in a world of complex systems

What Makes a System Complex

Interdependent
(how much you care)

Connected
(how many friends you have)

Diverse
(how different)

Adaptive
(how fast you can change)

Picking what to wear (Interdependent)

if you don't give an f
(Interdependent)

Picking what to wear if you care a bit
(Interdependent +)

Picking what to wear if you care a bit a lot
(Interdependent ++)

Emergence and agent based modeling

Feedback

Tipping Point

Large Events

How to harness Complexity

Understanding Complexity

By Amr Draz

Understanding Complexity

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