Strategy: Navigating the Complexity of the New World - Hardcover

Malik, Fredmund

 
9783593506111: Strategy: Navigating the Complexity of the New World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3593506114 ISBN 13: 9783593506111
Verlag: Campus Verlag, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book describes Malik's strategic solutions for the Revolutions of the New World, which are already underway. They are part of the Great Transformation 21 which the author will address in the book.

In the six parts of this book, he will first look at the dynamics of the Great Transformation 21, its inherent risks of crisis and its opportunities, as well as the labor pains that the New World is suffering. After that, he will deal with the amazingly effective cybernetic systems for strategic navigation and the strategy maps required for that, as well as the empirical quantification of businesses, both existing and yet unknown, which will help break the new territory of innovation. Finally, Malik will reveal the patterns that the tidal currents of great transformations invariably follow, as well as the economic dynamics resulting from them and the strategies required to deal with them.

In the last part of the book he will describe the revolutionary new methods that enable us to master groundbreaking strategic change with great precision and unprecedented time compression - at the "speed of light", so to speak. This way, even enormous corporate growth and size can be managed and turned into true strengths, with perfect ease and using innovative approaches where conventional approaches have proven useless.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Prof. Dr. Fredmund Malik is habilitated Professor of Corporate Governance and an internationally renowned management expert. He is founder and chairman of Malik Management, the world's leading knowledge organization for integrated management systems based on the science of cybernetics. Based in St. Gallen, Malik Management has around 300 employees, offices in six countries, and a network of partner organizations in the fields of cybernetics and bionics. It is the biggest provider of reliably functioning solutions to interconnected problems of organizational complexity and control. Malik Management helps thousands of managers to integrate and improve their knowledge of general management systems via training and intervention.

Malik is the author of more than ten award-winning bestsellers including the classic Managing, Performing, Living. He pens regular columns in opinion-forming media. He is among the most cited and profiled management thinkers of our time. His numerous awards include the Cross of Honor for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria (2009) and the Heinz von Foerster Award for Organizational Cybernetics of the German Association for Cybernetics (2010).

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Preface



Strategic Solutions for REvolutions



This book describes my strategic solutions for the REvolutions of the New World, which-although already under way-have yet to be recognized for what they are. That is why most of the measures taken so far are ineffective, with some even having a destructive impact on society.

What I call the New World will be the result of one of the largest global transformations of business and society that has ever taken place. I call it "The Great Transformation21".



The New Challenges



This transformation involves the danger of a social meltdown. At the same time, it also offers a chance for a new economic miracle to bring about a better and more humane social order where organizations function reliably.

What particular course this development will take depends, among other things, on the solutions, methods and tools that leadership elites worldwide can resort to in facing these challenges. It depends on which of the solutions at hand they can identify as genuine solutions, and which they ultimately opt for. One thing is certain: conventional means will not suffice to master the complexity of this transformation, as they have caused much of the current global crisis.

A strong driving force arises from the strategic solutions themselves that I am presenting here. They contribute their share so the upcoming revolutions will happen quickly, while-contrary to previous revolutions-manifesting itself as an innovative breakthrough rather than a violent upheaval.

They liberate us from both, long outdated forms of management and organization and the grotesque limitations of todays's social and political problem-solving processes.

Since 2011 my "Manifesto for Corporate REvolution" has been laid down in my book Corporate Policy and Governance, the second volume in my series Management: Mastering Complexity. Many of the developments outlined there-and even before-have meanwhile materialized, first and foremost the beginning collapse of the financial system. Further profound changes, such as in technology and the sciences as well as in people's social value structures-in particular those of the younger generation-, in their perspective on and perception of the world, have progressed to a point where they cannot be stopped anymore, so they should be accelerated instead and directed along more constructive paths wherever possible.

So, what most people believed impossible at the time of the above publications became a reality just a few years later. In 2008 I wrote that knowledge would outrank money and information would outrank power. The ongoing self-destruction of the financial system proves my first point; the ever-increasing global impact of the social media proves the second. Ruling and leading will never be the same again.

The financial crisis itself, however, will not be a central topic in this book. I have published everything that needed to be said in this respect in the course of the past 15 years; now I let the facts speak for themselves. The scenarios I have presented-some of them as early as in the 1990s-have come true. The basic pattern of this development is "deflationary depression", accompanied by social impoverishment and revolution-that is, unless economists and politicians do a radical rethink and change their course of action. That is why this book is dominated not so much by analyses as it is by solutions and the tools required for implementation.


The Right Knowledge



The knowledge society in the stricter sense is another topic I will not elaborate on here. I have addressed it in my book Corporate Policy.

Rather, what I make available here is the strategic knowledge that enables top managers in all kinds of organizations to tackle the challenges of the Great Transformation21 reliably, quickly, and effectively. The means to do that are my Management Systems® and the navigation, information, and control systems they include, as well as my strategy concepts and about a dozen new and greatly improved methods and tools.

Many of the pioneers among the top managers applying my management systems are left speechless by the power and speed at which problems are solved and more and more often resolved. Particularly effective are the high-performance processes of the social technology of Syntegration which helps master even huge and highly complex challenges better than ever before.

Just like in earlier phases of epoch-making transformation, almost everything is going to change fundamentally and radically. But while past revolutions were driven by machines, the imminent revolution will be driven by a new functioning of societal organizations, of their management at all levels, of their strategies and methods-including the levers of cybernetic self-organization and self-control.

My cordial thanks go to Mag. Tamara Bechter and Dr.?Sonja Böni for their enormously professional support with the new edition of what are so far three volumes of this series. Without their help I could have hardly accomplished the task.



St. Gallen, 2013

Fredmund Malik



Introduction

The Right Strategy for the
Great Transformation21



The Great Transformation21-as I have been referring to the transition from the Old to the New World-will be larger than any other social transformation we have seen so far, as it will span the entire globe.

The more intensely I studied the effective but also explosive power of the Great Transformation and the relevant strategic solutions, the tighter became the limits of language. Describing the complexity of globally interconnected systems and finding words for the simultaneousness of their change dynamics is just as difficult a task as putting a Beethoven symphony in words. Wherever I turn there is a lack of terms to describe the new, its many forms and dimensions, and above all the enormous speed of change as well as the unknowable that comes with it.

The usual superlatives-all the "super" and "mega" terms-, even if they were not as trite as they are, would never suffice to capture the scope of the Great Transformation. Apart from that, these terms originated in the Old World, so they can hardly convey any more than the Old World's limited power of imagination. Still, occasionally I have to use these terms for lack of better ones (at least to date).

If, for instance, the new methods introduced in this book enable even the most complex decisions to be taken and implemented 100 times faster, to increase team efficiency by more than 80 times, and to find solutions based on maximum consensus in just three days where even the smallest compromise was previously blocked by social gaps, and if this power of solution has led to success in hundreds of applications, without exception-what terms could be considered adequate for such achievements, when the aim is to describe the new dimensions of effectiveness but avoid both grandiloquence and advertising slang?

Historically, previous transformation of a similar kind-in particular in technology and science-have always spawned a new language because the new could not be put in old words. In the social and political sphere, however, new terms will often gain ground when the change itself progresses, or even later than that. For instance, people in the Renaissance age did not know they were experiencing the Renaissance-a term coined as late as in the 19th century. And it was more than 10 years after Columbus had landed in "India" (1492), in 1503, that someone else realized that a "mundus novus", something completely new, had been discovered-a fact that never occurred to the discoverer Columbus himself in his lifetime. Amerigo...

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Verlag
Campus Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3593506114
ISBN 13 
9783593506111
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Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
401
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