Johannes Strikwerda's career includes engagements with the Dutch government, Philips Electronics, KMPG-Consulting, and with the consulting firm Nolan, Norton & Co, where he was director of the Nolan Norton Institute. Since 1996 he teaches at the Amsterdam Business School (The Netherlands), and since 2000 as its professor of new organisational forms and organisational change. His topics of consulting are the design and transformation of multinational organisations and other organisations, in for-profit, non-profit, and government. He is a lecturer on strategy in the development program for members of supervisory boards organised by the Erasmus University (The Netherlands), and advises supervisory boards, including the writing of corporate governance codes. He is also a lecturer at SIOO, the national foundation for the education of management consultants in the Netherlands. He has written several books, two of which have received the Dutch management book of the year award. He is theauthor of 'Organization Design in the 21st Century: From Structure follows Strategy to Process follows Proposition', 'De Nederlandse Corporate Governance Code: Ingeleid, toegelicht en becommentarieerd' which is the handbook for corporate governance in The Netherlands. Other books are 'Bespiegelingen over governance, bestuur, management en organisatie in de 21ste eeuw', and with Jaap ten Wolde, 'Verplichte literatuur voor commissarissen en bestuurders'.

Helps deal with complexity with effective administrative instruments

Assists in moving beyond 20th century concepts and tools

Demonstrates information-based organisation as a lucid operational concept

Part I: Understanding Complexity and the Economy.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Complexity 3.0.- Chapter 3 Simplicity and complexity.- Chapter 4 Definitions of complexity.- ­ Chapter 5 Economic growth, complexity and institutional conflicts.- Part II: Organizational Complexity.- Chapter 6 Information and complexity.- Chapter 7 Complex decision-making.- Chapter 8 Complexity and coordination.- Part III: Complexity in Practice.- Chapter 9 Examples of mastering complexity.- Chapter 10 How CEOs cope with complexity.- Chapter 11 Tools executives use to deal with uncertainty and complexity.- Chapter 12 Organization design and complexity.- Chapter 13 Complexity and management of change.- Chapter 14 A final word.- Index.