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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gary metcalfe”
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  • Social Systems and Design

    Edited by Gary S. Metcalf ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    We live in the worlds that we help to create every day. Every activity either supports an existing system or effects some change, however small. But is it possible to consciously create the worlds in which we want to live?This volume brings together systems theorists and practitioners who have worked on that question for decades. It explores connections between design and systems ideas to explain ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Kanban

    3 Books in 1: Your Guide to the Basics+Beyond the Basics+Workflow Visualized: An Expert's Guide

    by Gary Metcalfe ...
    Narrated by Skyler Morgan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    Has Kanban become the Kan-bane of your organization?Are you still lost in the woods when it comes to Kanban? Is WIP driving you crazy?Are you ready to banish all these problems out of existence?By popular demand, in this book bundle, we present to you Gary Metcalfe's best selling series Kanban. All the way from learning what Kanban actually is to ABC classification to learning Kanban ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Systems: from science to practice

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth IFSR Conversation 2018, St. Magdalena, Linz, Austria

    Edited by Gary S. Metcalf, Mary C. Edson, Gerhard Chroust ...
    Conversation were introduced by Bela H. Banathy at around 1980 as an alternative to the classical conferences. They reflect the insight that the greatest benefit for participants of a meeting were due to the discussions and conversations between participants and not so much as a result of the formal presentations of papers. The participants of Conversations follow the concepts and design of Bela ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Systems Literacy

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth IFSR Conversation

    Edited by Gary S. Metcalf, Peter Tuddenham, Gerhard Chroust, Mary C. Edson ...
    Series Book 18 - Proceedings of the IFSR Conversations
    Conversations were introduced by Bela H. Banathy around 1980 as an alternative to the classical conferences which usually consist only of presentation of streamlined papers and short question slots. In a Conversation a small group of systems scientists and practitioners meets for several days to discuss in a self-guided way a topic of scientific and social importance. The overarching theme for the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0

    Explorations in the Transition from a Techno-economic to a Socio-technical Future

    Edited by Susu Nousala, Gary Metcalf, David Ing ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is an Open Access book.In 2015, Industry 4.0 was announced with the rise of industrialization by the European Parliament, supporting policy, research, and infrastructure funding. In 2020, Industry 5.0 was launched as an evolution of Industry 4.0, towards societal and ecological values in a sustainable, human-centric, and resilient transition. In 2023, the IN4ACT research project team ... Read more

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    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Re-Engineering Humanity

    by Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger ...
    Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Understanding Social Networks

    Theories, Concepts, and Findings

    by Charles Kadushin ...
    Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon. Written for those interested in this fast moving area but who ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Acting with Technology

    Activity Theory and Interaction Design

    by Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes the case for activity ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    by James G. March ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Texture

    Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload

    by Richard H. R. Harper ...
    Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Social Networks

    An Introduction

    by Jeroen Bruggeman ...
    Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories.Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some undergraduate) courses in a variety of disciplines it is well-suited for everybody who makes a first encounter with the field of social networks, both academics and practitioners.This book includes reviews, study questions and ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD