Nelson L. Lammoglia, Camilo Olaya, Jorge Villalobos, Juan P. Calderón, Juan A. Valdivia and Roberto Zarama
The paper considers model‐based management and, based on it, proposes a heuristic‐based management. This paper aims to assert that heuristic‐based management, for complex systems…
Abstract
Purpose
The paper considers model‐based management and, based on it, proposes a heuristic‐based management. This paper aims to assert that heuristic‐based management, for complex systems, a process of free variation, of pairs of models and actions – called organisational strategies, maximizes the chances of improving the system's performance in open environments.
Design/methodology/approach
A conception of complex systems are introduced and characterized as open and self‐organising systems. Then, the proposal to heuristically use pairs of models and actions, called organisational strategies, to manage social systems based on evolutionary thought is supported. Subsequently, a computational experiment is proposed to show that, even in a simple framework, variation processes are required.
Findings
The paper shows that two processes may be required to preserve self‐organising systems. This finding indicates that variation and selection processes, related to evolutionary thought, are necessary for managers to deal with complex systems interacting with complex environments. Finally, it is shown that, even in simple computational environments, variation may be required.
Research limitations/implications
The paper is the first part of an ongoing research agenda on the subject of heuristic‐based management and only refers to variation processes.
Originality/value
The paper links complex systems theories to evolutionary thought. It also relates principles of cybernetics to those of game theory. The proposal has been formalized based on these relations, and has been called heuristic‐based management. Principles first developed in information theory, organisational cybernetics, and evolutionary thought are used so that a complex system can be effective when interacting with a complex environment.
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Roberto Zarama, Alfonso Reyes, Eduardo Aldana, Jorge Villalobos, Juan C. Bohorquez, Juan P. Calderón, Alonso Botero, Nelson L. Lammoglia, José L. Villaveces, Luis Pinzón, Ricardo Bonilla, Andrés Mejía, José Bermeo, Isaac Dyner, Neil F. Johnson and Juan A. Valdivia
This paper seeks to present a proposal to change the form in which knowledge is produced in Colombia.
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Purpose
This paper seeks to present a proposal to change the form in which knowledge is produced in Colombia.
Design/methodology/approach
Discusses the key issue – to transform the way in which the production of knowledge is currently taking place at the university level.
Findings
To be able to increase the production of knowledge in this country there is a need to create bonds among industrial, governmental, and academic institutions. It is believed that this can be done by the development of a system capable of continuously forming researchers at a doctoral level.
Originality/value
The paper puts forward a proposal for the construction of such a system based on the developments of organizational cybernetics. The proposal is based on the concept of autonomy which is crucial to solve this problem.
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Roberto Zarama, José Bermeo, Nelson Lammoglia and Jairo Villamil
This tribute to Stafford Beer is written from the particular situation of a Latin American country. Within this context, we believe that it could be convenient to dissolve the…
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This tribute to Stafford Beer is written from the particular situation of a Latin American country. Within this context, we believe that it could be convenient to dissolve the systems movement to assume an ethical‐political position that transforms the relations of dependence in the world‐system from the point of view of economic development. A contribution to this task is the formation of amplifiers of regulatory capacity that has been developed in Colombia. In this paper, we present some preliminary advances of autoethospoiesis and some of its future perspectives of research and action. One of our main objectives is to apply this functor with recurrent, recursive, and incursive operators to the world‐system model.