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Carte Drift into Failure Sidney Dekker

Drift into Failure

From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

Autor: Sidney Dekker
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Sidney Dekker
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2011
Pagini
234
EAN
9781409422228
ISBN
1409422224
Enbook ID
04782581
Editura
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Greutate
580
Dimensiuni
161 x 243 x 20

Descriere completă

What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.

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