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portada Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
220
Format
Paperback
Weight
1.00
ISBN13
9781409422211
Edition No.
1
Categories

Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

Sidney Dekker (Author) · Crc Press · Paperback

Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems - Sidney Dekker

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Synopsis "Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems "

What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.

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