Systems Thinking for Effective Managers: The Road Less Travelled - Couverture souple

Dutta, Prashun

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9386446731 ISBN 13 : 9789386446732

Editeur : SAGE Response, 2017

Synopsis

Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries.  While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal systems and the complexities that managers and leaders deal with.

The real world is markedly different and heavily interconnected. Systems thinking is the perfect antidote to the stagnation that characterizes managerial theories and practices. Conventional management, constrained by a sanitized world view, is no longer able to deliver as it did in the past. Expanding horizons and thinking holistically unveils the big picture and builds a body of knowledge more suited to the changing times we live in.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Prashun Dutta, a veteran with over three and a half decades of work experience initially as a management consultant with the National Productivity Council and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and later as a senior executive at Reliance group of companies, has a heady mix of management consulting and industrial engagement under his belt. A postgraduate in industrial engineering and a Fellow (equivalent to PhD) of the IIM Calcutta, he has worked in the areas of strategy, structure, and systems for an array of businesses and governmental organizations. As a senior executive with Reliance Industries, Prashun started with managing the business analysis function for the Polyester Fibre Group and went on to assume the role of chief information officer (CIO) at Reliance Infrastructure. Subsequently, he became the CIO at Tata Power from where he superannuated in 2015. Now attached to Gaia Smart Cities, a startup company in the smart cities, and Internet of Things (IoT) space as Advisor, Prashun is applying his systems thinking approach anew.

The diverse experience is posited on a polymath personality, with wide-ranging interests from history through quantum physics to tennis and music. Acquaintance with such apparently disparate areas allows Prashun the appreciation of subtle commonalities and interlinkages that exist between them. The consequent “big picture” that emerges, feeds the passion for systems thinking and Prashun has an abundance of it. This book is a direct outcome of this intrinsic fountain.

Like most articulate/eloquent individuals, he delivers talks on a variety of topics and has written extensively in several magazines and journals. A recipient of several awards both for his work and as a thought leader, he now lives in Mumbai with his wife and two sons.

He has started penning his thoughts in a blog, Managing In The Big Picture (thebigpicture492.wordpress.com)

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Draws extensively from real-life situations of successful application of systems thinking in organizations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Response
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9386446731
• ISBN 13: 9789386446732
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 193
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible