Strategic Thinking and the New Science
The Free Press (Verlag)
978-1-4516-2428-1 (ISBN)
Sanders' original and practical approach moves far beyond traditional forecasting, futuring and scenario-building. The new science of chaos and complexity has shown scientists and business professionals alike the importance of looking at the world as a whole system, rather than as a collection of deterministic principles. Consequently, the human mind -- through the integration of intuition and intellect -- is now recognized as the only information processor capable of understanding the level of complexity in today's global business environment. By engaging the mind's eye through the use of visual thinking, Sanders shows you how to develop insight about the present and foresight about the future, thereby allowing you to see and influence the future as it is emerging. The new planning paradigm presented in Strategic Thinking and the New Science is nothing less than a transformation of the science of business.
For the first time in history, we have the knowledge, tools and techniques to develop visual thinking as the essential insight/foresight skill of the future. In addition to breakthroughs neuroscientists have made about brain-mind interactions, artists and psychologists are revealing the role of imagery in the creative process. And now, the new field of scientific visualization brings all of this information together with computer graphics to demonstrate how visual images can be used to engage our imaginations, enhance learning -- and stimulate our deeper levels of awareness.
In this groundbreaking book, Sanders is the first to define the new model of strategic thinking -- a model that is bound to revolutionize organizations of all types as they begin to see and influence their futures -- today.
T. Irene Sanders is principal of Sanders & Company, a consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations see, understand and influence the dynamics of the real world context in which their decisions are being made. She has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies, international groups and nonprofit organizations, and she frequently provides strategic thinking and planning services to individual members and committees of the United States Congress. She lives in Evergreen, Colorado.
Contents
PROLOGUE: Exploring the Unknown
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
Understanding and Using the New Science
1. Listen To the Footprints
2. Butterflies and Hurricanes
3. Getting Started: Real World Applications
PART TWO
The Art and Science of Visual Thinking
4. Visual Thinking
5. From Forecasting To Foresight
6. The New Planning Paradigm
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Verlagsort | New York |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 253 g |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4516-2428-X / 145162428X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4516-2428-1 / 9781451624281 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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