Cybernetic System Design for a Complex World: The Variety Calculus
暫譯: 複雜世界的控制系統設計：多樣性演算
Niven, Gordon, Capewell, David
- 出版商: Routledge
- 出版日期: 2026-06-02
- 售價: $6,200
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,890
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 226
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1041166257
- ISBN-13: 9781041166252
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商品描述
Cybernetic System Design for a Complex World has profound implications for leaders and decision-makers in any sector struggling to achieve clarity and agency in today's complex and dynamic world. This book provides the means to tailor organisations, capabilities, and technologies to their specific operating environments, whether simple or complex.
By introducing a new way of thinking and visualising systems, this title enables professionals to better understand situations, design effective solutions, and make confident decisions. Rooted in the principles of cybernetics - the universal mechanisms through which all systems, social or technological, adapt and maintain viability in dynamic conditions - Cybernetic System Design for a Complex World combines a robust theoretical framework, practical tools, and methods to achieve effective agency even in the face of the most challenging tasks.
Cybernetic ideas have been uniquely developed into an accessible and comprehensive methodology that is applicable to all aspects of purposeful system design and allows professionals to navigate the complexity of the modern 'Information Age' world.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《複雜世界的控制系統設計》對於任何在當今複雜且動態的世界中努力尋求清晰度和行動能力的領導者和決策者具有深遠的意義。本書提供了根據特定操作環境（無論是簡單還是複雜）量身定制組織、能力和技術的手段。
通過引入一種新的思維方式和系統可視化方法，本書使專業人士能夠更好地理解情況、設計有效的解決方案並做出自信的決策。本書根植於控制論的原則——所有系統（無論是社會的還是技術的）在動態條件下適應和維持生存能力的普遍機制——《複雜世界的控制系統設計》結合了堅實的理論框架、實用工具和方法，即使面對最具挑戰性的任務，也能實現有效的行動能力。
控制論的理念被獨特地發展成一種可及且全面的方法論，適用於所有有目的的系統設計方面，並使專業人士能夠在現代「資訊時代」的複雜性中導航。
作者簡介
Gordon Niven is a Chief Systems Thinking Specialist at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, UK. He has over 15 years' experience applying systems approaches to complex challenges across all areas of defence and security. He teaches systems thinking, is an honorary fellow at Exeter University, and works as a consultant specialising in addressing complex challenges.
David Capewell served for 37 years in the UK military, with his last appointment as Chief of Joint Operations, where he was responsible to the government for UK global operations. He is currently the Chairman of a forensic intelligence business and a director of a large digital systems company. He also sits on the boards of a range of prestigious capital investment houses and chaired a panel for the recent strategic defence review. He is a distinguished fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and was the Hudson fellow at the University of Oxford.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
戈登·尼文（Gordon Niven）是英國國防科學與技術實驗室（Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Dstl）首席系統思維專家，位於波頓唐（Porton Down）。他在應用系統方法解決國防和安全各領域的複雜挑戰方面擁有超過15年的經驗。他教授系統思維，並擔任埃克塞特大學（Exeter University）的名譽研究員，同時作為顧問專注於解決複雜挑戰。
大衛·卡佩威爾（David Capewell）在英國軍隊服役37年，最後的職位是聯合行動總指揮官，負責向政府報告英國的全球行動。目前，他是某家法醫情報公司的董事長，以及一家大型數位系統公司的董事。他還在多家知名資本投資公司的董事會任職，並主持了最近的戰略防禦評估小組。他是英國皇家聯合服務研究所（Royal United Services Institute, RUSI）的傑出研究員，曾擔任牛津大學的哈德遜研究員（Hudson fellow）。
