Building Trust in a Smart Society : Managing in a Modular, Agile and Decentralized Way.

Three principles, modularization, agility and decentralization (MAD), drive progress in areas such as traffic management, the internet and the energy landscape. Critical in the design of the next generation of organizations and business platforms, they enable businesses to build the trust they need...

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Main Author: Klous, Sander
Other Authors: Wielaard, Nart, O'Neil, Cathy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Dutch
Published: Oxford : Infinite Ideas, 2018
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Part 1: Complexity and the Mad Principles: Towards a Smart Society; 1. Complexity: the greatest challenge of our time; 2. Going MAD: embracing complexity; 3. MAD and self-management: organizing a complex world; 4. Preconditions for self-management; 5. The platform organization: optimal transparency?; 6. The downside of platform organizations; 7. The MAD platform: balancing transparency and trust; Part 2: The Role of Trust within a Smart Society; 8. Trusting networks; 9. Algorithms and trust; 10. A new model for supervision and monitoring
  • 11. The hot potato: who will set the standard?12. MAD supervision; Conclusion: how MAD could work in practice; Epilogue: limits to controlling complexity; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index; Copyright