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Entropy Vector, The: Connecting Science And Business
Connecting Science and Business
- 200 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Entropy Vector, The: Connecting Science And Business
Connecting Science and Business
About this book
How do managers and entrepreneurs evaluate risk, encourage creativity or manage change? Might a better grasp of science help? The authors of this book suggest that there is real value in trying to connect science to business and that science is far too important just to be left to the scientists.All of science is too large a prospect, so the authors limit themselves to looking at disorder. We must all learn to manage and control change, and there is plenty of social, technical and business change going on. The authors suggest that a clearer understanding of entropy and the choices it presents will assist in that management of change — or, as they put it, to manage disorder one needs to control the entropy vector.This book is for scientists and engineers aspiring to business success and for business people interested in new approaches.
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Yes, you can access Entropy Vector, The: Connecting Science And Business by Robert D Handscombe, Eann A Patterson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Entrepreneurship. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Disorderly Signposts business success • socially responsible capitalism • leadership and change • excitement of entropy • signposts to chapters
- 2 Planck’s Inspiration: Nature, Philosophy and Business Ockham’s razor • Mother Nature • an engineering excuse for inefficiency • free energy? • the way you like it and for nothing
- 3 Life, the Universe and Entropy vectors, pool tables and Isaac Newton • forces for change • inflation and pollution • physics and information • Isobel’s message • Maxwell’s demon
- 4 The Entropy Vector uniting entropy and vector • sailing boats • Boltzmann index • lost in Bilbao and queuing in Detroit • taking control by letting go
- 5 Energy and Entropy scattering the seed • organic companies • exergy conservation • energy management
- 6 Time and Entropy who created God? • entropy as the arrow of time • time management • bored in transit • information flows • optimised production
- 7 Managing Disorder good management techniques • teams and training • flat-lining • control freaks • pantomimes and orchestras • change and risk
- 8 Creativity and Innovation what is creativity? • what is innovation? • harnessing them in business • technology trajectories • woolliness, bananas and knots • entropy and technopy
- 9 Risk and Entropy ontRe-pRenur • winning the risk game • boundaries and vision • sins of omission/commission • elephants, rabbits, barbecues and the cost of grass
- 10 Mental Entropy education and training • memory and analysis • efficiency, effectiveness and distinctiveness • diversity of skill and attitude • employee and team skills • science and measurement
- 11 Entropy Trade-offs power packs and technology vectors • labour market, incentives and equilibrium • improbable happenings
- 12 The Entropy Tool Kit summary • pulling it all together • ideas and tools
- Index