Managing Complex Organizations

<body background="../../../images/backgnd1.jpg"> <table cool width="603" height="2083" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" gridx="16" showgridx usegridx gridy="16" showgridy usegridy> <tr height="1" cntrlrow> <td width="1" height="1"></td> <td width="16" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="16" height="1"></td> <td width="112" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="112" height="1"></td> <td width="462" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="462" height="1"></td> <td width="10" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="10" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr height="16"> <td width="1" height="16"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="16"></td> <td width="16" height="16"></td> <td width="112" height="16"></td> <td width="462" height="16"></td> <td width="10" height="16"></td> </tr> <tr height="2064"> <td width="1" height="2064"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="2064"></td> <td width="16" height="2064"></td> <td width="112" height="2064" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" align="left" xpos="16"><a href="http://necsi.net"><img src="../../../logos/n_logo.gif" width="88" height="111" border="0"></a></td> <td width="462" height="2064" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" align="left" xpos="128" content csheight="2064"> <div align="right"> <font size="5" color="blue"><b>NECSI Executive Education Programs</b></font></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font size="6" color="blue"><b>Managing Complex Organizations in a Complex World:</b></font></p> <p><font size="5" color="blue"><b>Leadership in Rapidly Changing Business Environments -<br> Learning and Adapting in Time</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" color="black"><b>November 14-15, 2002<br> Boston, MA</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" color="black"><b>Speakers:<br> <a href="#bar-yam">Yaneer Bar-Yam</a>, NECSI and Harvard University<br> <a href="#cares">Jeffrey Cares</a>, Newport Center for Information Age<br>                     Warfare Studies<br> <a href="#plsek">Peter Senge</a>, Society for Organizational Learning and<br>                     MIT Sloan School of Management<br> <a href="#sterman">John Sterman</a>, MIT Sloan School of Management<br> </b></font></p> <p><font size="4">This is a two-day practical experience on working with chaos and complexity - in the global economy, in national markets, in business to business interactions and within the organization itself. We will use new insights and concepts from the field of complex systems to discuss innovative ways to survive and thrive in today's new/old economy.</font></p> <p><font size="4" color="blue"><b>Objectives: </b></font></p> <p><font size="4">We will identify the key properties of successful complex organizations  their structure, dynamics, information flows, and relationships  and the essential roles of leadership in responding to the rapidly changing complex world. Participants will leave prepared to pay attention to new information, ask new questions, make better decisions - to identify the right time to adapt quickly and when to stay as they are.</font></p> <p><font size="4" color="blue"><b>Approach:</b></font></p> <p><font size="4">The presenters will interact with participants in exploring the key concepts of managing organizations as complex systems. Questions are welcome and discussion time will be a key part of the program. Speakers will present a cutting-edge perspective on managing business as it is - human and complex.</font></p> <p><font size="4" color="blue"><b>Audience:</b></font></p> <p><font size="4">This seminar is created for key decision makers and those who advise them - executives, senior management, public administrators, management consultants, organizational development professionals and business educators.</font></p> <p><font size="4" color="blue"><b>Results:</b></font></p> <p><font size="4">At the end of the seminar participants will be able to:</font></p> <ul> <li type="disc"><font size="4">Identify key success factors in rapid and early adaptation to changes in the business and political climate</font> <li type="disc"><font size="4">Value critical organizational connections - know when to create them and when to cut them</font> <li type="disc"><font size="4">Gain insights and skills to make better decisions in uncertain situations</font> <li type="disc"><font size="4">Manage the use of new tools - including simulation and system modeling - to analyze the behavior of complex organizations</font> </ul> <p> <form method="post" action="http://necsi.net/cgi-bin/exec.cgi"> <input type="submit" name="return" value="Register"> </form> <br> </p> <p><font size="4" color="blue"><b>Speakers:</b></font></p> <p><font size="4"><b><a name="bar-yam"></a><a href="http://necsi.net/faculty/bar-yam.html">YANEER BAR-YAM</a></b> is President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, Chairman of the International Conference on Complex Systems, Managing Editor of InterJournal, and author of Dynamics of Complex Systems (1997), the only textbook to address the entire field of complex systems. Bar-Yam uses complex systems concepts to understand how organizations and patterns of behavior arise, evolve, adapt, and how we can use multiscale representations to relate fine and large scale, short and long term perspectives. He has studied the role of complexity in corporate organization and effectiveness, in health care and health care management, in the education system, in military conflict, and in third world development. Applications are to the relationship of structure and function and meeting complex challenges at all scales.</font></p> <p><font size="4"><b><a name="bar-yam"></a><a href="framecares.html">JEFFREY CARES</a> </b>is an expert in Information Age Warfare, distributed control in military operations, and Network Centric Warfare. He served at the strategic, theater, operational, and tactical levels in US Navy, United Nations and multinational commands, including service during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. More recently, at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Office of the Secretary of Defence, Cares was engaged in revolutionizing combat models, new technology adoption and planning strategic investment. He is currently providing specific guidance on military tranformation to the Director of Force Transformation at the Pentagon. Cares is a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, responsible for Command Center operations supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. He has been awarded numerous personal awards and unit and campaign ribbons, including the Combat Action Ribbon. He is a certified Antiair Warfare Technical and Operational Expert as well as an Antisubmarine Warfare Operational Expert. Cares co-founded the Newport Center for Information Age Warfare Studies. As President of Alidade Incorporated, Cares provides consulting services to government agencies, defense industry analysis firms and military contractors. He has been recognized by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as one of the top "Innovators and Thought Leaders" of the Information Age. </font></p> <p><font size="4"><b><a name="senge"></a><a href="http://necsi.net/faculty/management/senge.html">PETER M. SENGE</a></b> is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) (over 750,000 in circulation) and co-author of three field books, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994), and The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (1999), and Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education(2000). Harvard Business Review has identified The Fifth Discipline as one of the seminal management books of the past 75 years. The Journal of Business Strategy named Dr. Senge as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years.</font></p> <p><font size="4"><b><a name="sterman"></a><a href="http://necsi.net/faculty/management/sterman.html">JOHN D. STERMAN</a></b>, Standish Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School, author of Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World (2000), specializes in systems thinking for corporate and public policy, behavioral decision theory, nonlinear dynamics, and economic dynamics. Sterman uses system dynamics - a framework for understanding complex situations - to examine how people approach complex decisions and discover why dysfunctional dynamics persist in organizations. Using management "flight simulators" that Sterman and his students have developed, managers can design effective policies to improve the long-term performance of their organizations. Recent applications include the semiconductor, automotive, and computer industries; and issues from growth strategy to process improvement and product development.</font></p> <p> <form method="post" action="http://necsi.net/cgi-bin/exec.cgi"> <input type="submit" name="return" value="Register"> </form> <br> </p> <center> <dl> <dt>Copyright © 2002 New England Complex Systems Institute. All rights reserved. </dl> </center> </td> <td width="10" height="2064"></td> </tr> </table> </body>