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This reveals the main point emergent from (but not necessarily within) the article: the failure of complex systems is most often the result of poor management p
by calinet6 12y ago
This reveals the main point emergent from (but not necessarily within) the article: the failure of complex systems is most often the result of poor management practices.
Management, above all, is responsible for an organization that can enable quality through systematic means. There are no other means.
- dredmorbius 12y agoIn the case of smaller organizational systems (projects, companies, possibly even states), yes. At the largest scale, I find the analysis of Diamond and Tainter comes into play. The capacity to survive smaller crises and overcome them just increases the magnitude of your final failure, though Diamond suggests a few means by which failure may be averted (Tainter seems to find it inevitable). Ultimately, the resources required to maintain a system prove insufficient.