The Third Lens: Multi-Ontology Sense-Making and Strategic Decision-Making

Aaltonen, Mika

ISBN 10: 0754647986 / ISBN 13: 9780754647980

Published by Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Third Lens: Multi-Ontology Sense-Making and Strategic Decision-Making
• Publisher: Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754647986
• ISBN 13: 9780754647980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Advancing new sense-making tools for organizational strategy, this book demonstrates how to deal with asymmetric threats and opportunities. It employs participatory methods and multiple sector strategies to shift strategic thinking into considering disorder complexity and chaos. The contributors examine whether the 'third lens' or ontology of a project (its nature, work and strategic landscape) should influence the two other 'lenses' (our epistemological and methodological choices) that create an understanding of the world we live in. The book also considers the importance of time, in particular spatio-temporal relations that serve as reflection points for sense-making and strategic decision-making, both with respect to the situation in which they take place and as conceptual vehicles for managing multiple times and realities. Written for 21st century strategists, this volume will benefit people and organizations who struggle daily with multiple co-existing ontological, epistemological and methodological discourses.

About the Author

Mika Aaltonen is Head and Chairman of the Board of StraX (the research unit for strategic intelligence and exploration of futures) at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland