How Fragile is Your Organization?

By inputing a wide variety of data sources from revenue to number of staff to units sold, Ontonix can give you a dashboard reading of how fragile or resilient your company or organization is.

This is not a predictive tool (sound complexity applications avoid that trap) but is instead a way of measuring how interconnected an organization is and how it might respond to change.

This can be very critical in assessing risk, weighing various opportunities, or addressing organizational health and culture issues.

Complexity Science and Social Entrepreneurship

This looks like a worthwhile read. Social entrepreneurship is an emerging line of thinking and practice that has clear crossover with complexity science applications. The book is now out, though I have not seen a copy yet. If anyone has seen it, I would be happy for some comments or feedback. In the meantime, here are the particulars for the book:

COMPLEXITY SCIENCE & SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ADDING SOCIAL VALUE THROUGH SYSTEMS THINKING

Written/Edited by: Jeffrey A. Goldstein, James K. Hazy and Joyce Silberstang. 2009. ISBN/ISSN 9780984216406 (646 pages + index), ISCE Publishing

"This ground-breaking volume explores social entrepreneurship from the perspective of complexity science and systems thinking. Case studies, models, simulations, and theoretical papers advance both theory and practice, providing an innovative and comprehensive look at these dynamic topics. Written by complexity theorists, international development practitioners, and experts in a variety of other disciplines, this must-have book is mandatory reading for everyone interested in this newly developing field."