Ambidexterity: a possible balance to manage complexity

Dynamic ambidexterity: How innovators manage exploration and exploitation

Learning to manage complexity through simulation: students’ challenges and possible strategies

Many have called for medical students to learn how to manage complexity in healthcare. This study examines the nuances of students' challenges in coping with a complex simulation learning activity, using concepts from complexity theory, and suggests strategies to help them better understand and manage complexity.Wearing video glasses, participants took part in a simulation ward-based exercise t...

Decomposing scheme plans to manage verification complexity

Several formal methods have been proposed for the specification and safety verification of railway applications. In order to be successful they need industrial strength tools to support the animation, proof, model checking and simulation of such systems. The complexity of railway systems means that capability of the analysis tools have consistently been improving. In our approach we propose tha...

Lessons on resilience: Learning to manage complexity

Complexity permeates every aspect of contemporary healthcare, challenging the delivery of medical education [1]. Gormley and Fenwick [2] invite us to reflect on how we can help individual learners to see what’s in front of them when they face complexity. Instead of saying, ‘well, everything is just so chaotic’, the authors offer a practical application of complexity theory that facilitates unde...

Toward A Dynamic View of Organizational Ambidexterity: Promoting a Sense of Balance and Contingency Toward A Dynamic View of Organizational Ambidexterity: Promoting a Sense of Balance and Contingency

A substantial body of work has examined how exploitative and exploratory learning processes need to be balanced within an organization in order to increase innovation, productivity, and firm performance. Since exploration and exploitation require different resources, structures, and processes, several approaches to balancing these activities have been suggested; one of which is simultaneous imp...