Название: Strategic Engineering
Автор: Jacques Arcade
Издательство: Wiley-ISTE
Год: 2021
Страниц: 313
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 21.7 MB

In the face of increasing complexity, uncertainty and difficulty in the design and implementation of reforms, companies, organizations and institutions must strive to capitalize on the prevailing disarray by acting wisely in overcoming it.

Strategic engineering is part of an integrative, tool-based approach, inspired by the life sciences and “creative recursion”. This book is structured into three parts, which correspond to the three main phases of the strategic engineering approach: observe and discern; judge and arbitrate; act and intervene. Strategic Engineering has wide appeal, relevant to senior leaders, decisionmakers, managers and practitioners within businesses, government and local authorities. It is also intended for those who wish to develop their capability in anticipatory or transformative management within economic, sociopolitical and strategic contexts.

In this book on strategic engineering, Jacques Arcade seeks to extend and deepen his expertise in foresight and strategic management in an innovative methodological approach, bringing together vision, anticipation, and action in increasingly complex and changing, even fluid, environments. He provides a guide for enlightened action. Perhaps he even inaugurates a discipline, combining engineering and strategy - what a task! Engineering is the discipline that consists of designing and building computer systems and, more generally, scientific applications. From here, engineering can be transposed to human affairs, businesses and organizations, including the military - strategy being the art of leading an army - as Jacques Arcade proposes, and it is a step he takes without hesitation and with conviction. Is it possible to compare technical-industrial systems and human organizations? Certainly, in both cases, one must have foresight and knowledge in order to be able to do so. In human organizations, however, there is no mechanism, everything is in motion and is even unexpected and unpredictable. Thus, it is necessary to renew anticipation while acting in an environment that is itself evolving. It is this complexity that strategicengineering sets out to tackle.