Drift into Failure From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
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 w...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham ; Burlington, Vt
CRC Press
2011
Ashgate CRC Press LLC Taylor & Francis Group |
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| ISBN: | 9781409422228, 1409422224, 9781409422211, 1409422216 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reviews for Drift into Failure -- Preface -- 1 Failure is Always an Option -- Who messed up here? -- Technology has developed more quickly than theory -- Complexity, locality and rationality -- Complexity and drift into failure -- A great title, a lousy metaphor -- References -- 2 Features of Drift -- The broken part -- The outlines of drift -- A story of drift -- References -- 3 The Legacy of Newton and Descartes -- Why did Newton and Descartes have such an impact? -- So why should we care? -- We have Newton on a retainer -- References -- 4 The Search for the Broken Component -- Broken components after a hailstorm -- Broken components to explain a broken system -- Newton and the simplicity of failure -- References -- 5 Theorizing Drift -- Man-made disasters -- High reliability organizations -- Goal interactions and production pressure -- Normalizing deviance, structural secrecy and practical drift -- Control theory and drift -- Resilience engineering -- References -- 6 What is Complexity and Systems Thinking? -- More redundancy and barriers, more complexity -- Up and out, not down and in -- Systems thinking -- Complex systems theory -- Complexity and drift -- References -- 7 Managing the Complexity of Drift -- Complexity, control and influence -- Diversity as a safety value -- Turning the five features of drift into levers of influence -- Drifting into success -- Complexity, drift, and accountability -- A post-Newtonian ethic for failure in complex systems -- References -- Bibliography -- Index
- Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reviews for Drift into Failure -- Preface -- 1 Failure is Always an Option -- Who messed up here? -- Technology has developed more quickly than theory -- Complexity, locality and rationality -- Complexity and drift into failure -- A great title, a lousy metaphor -- References -- 2 Features of Drift -- The broken part -- The outlines of drift -- A story of drift -- References -- 3 The Legacy of Newton and Descartes -- Why did Newton and Descartes have such an impact? -- So why should we care? -- We have Newton on a retainer -- References -- 4 The Search for the Broken Component -- Broken components after a hailstorm -- Broken components to explain a broken system -- Newton and the simplicity of failure -- References -- 5 Theorizing Drift -- Man-made disasters -- High reliability organizations -- Goal interactions and production pressure -- Normalizing deviance, structural secrecy and practical drift -- Control theory and drift -- Resilience engineering -- References -- 6 What is Complexity and Systems Thinking? -- More redundancy and barriers, more complexity -- Up and out, not down and in -- Systems thinking -- Complex systems theory -- Complexity and drift -- References -- 7 Managing the Complexity of Drift -- Complexity, control and influence -- Diversity as a safety value -- Turning the five features of drift into levers of influence -- Drifting into success -- Complexity, drift, and accountability -- A post-Newtonian etliic for failure in complex systems -- References -- Bibliography -- Index