The Complexity Challenge: Technological Innovation for the 21st Century

By Robert W. Rycroft and Don E. Kash

Between the 1970s-90s, innovation has changed the character of the world's most valuable commercial technologies - they have become complex. This text investigates the fundamental rethinking required... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855676117
• ISBN13: 9781855676114
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Pinter Publishers
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Complexity applied to Technology

This work provides the perfect lexicon for understanding the everchanging world around us. Kash and Rycroft provide for a total reconceptualization of technology, innovation, and public policy. Provided here are the keys for an adaptive, dynamic strategy for both competition and public policy. Useful for managers in any industry (including the public sector)and especially for those in industries most rife with complexity such as information technology, engineering, electronics, farming, machine tools, robotics, computer science, etc. (although it will soon be everything).