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Absorptive Capacity

Absorptive capacity is defined as the ability of an organisation to locate, appreciate and assimilate the value of environmental perturbations (new internal or external information). The term was introduced by Cohen and Levinthal (1992).

Applied Complexity Research

Complexity thinking is: Defined by objects of inquiry (what), rather than mode of investigation (how); It is transphenomenal and transdisciplinary; An umbrella notion than a domain of inquiry; It is an interdiscourse, not a metadiscourse;

Bat Methodology

The Business Architecture Tool (BAT®) embedded in Systems Methodology: A Holistic Integrative Model of Delivery, using Chaos to understanding Dynamicism and Complexity of social systems.

BAT Systems and Complexity Embedded Solution Architecture

A system is an ensamble, or combination of elements or parts forming a complex or unitary whole (e.g., a human body, a river, a transportation system, a business, an assembly of facts, a philosophy; a methodology, a system of marking, numbering, or measuring.

Context of the R&D

Complexity builds on and enriches systems theory by articulating additional characteristics of complex systems and emphasises their interrelationship and interdependence (we cannot isolate one principle/characteristic such as selforganisation and concentrate on it in exclusion of the others).

Dynamic Environments and Complexity Embedded Strategies

Emerging theories suggest how organisations can adapt by building on the insights of complexity science.

Evolutionary Fitness and Knowledge

The paper explores the notion of evolutionary fitness as applied to knowledge and cognition.

Human Capital Management: a Complexity Viewpoint

The paper visits the HCM from the viewpoint of complexity science.

Integrated Organisational Design Considerations

The management system of an enterprise can be seen as an agent maintaining a system of objectives, having emergent properties of its collective and its environment.

Internal External Dynamics

This paper explores the rich interplay of both external and internal dynamics on organisations.

New Sciences of System Thinking, Chaos Theory and Complexity Science

This paper explores the science of system thinking, chaos theory and complexity science.

Reality of our Cybernetic Environment

This paper provides an introduction to the thinking of everyday human computer or technology interface as it occurs in creative and social contexts.

Thinking About Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is expanding the mind to more fully understand a situation, and involves analyzing, organizing, interpreting, making decisions about and communicating information.