Capital, Systems, and Objects: The Foundation and Future of Organizations 9811594171, 9789811594175

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Value Proposition
How to Read This Book
Contents
About the Author
Capital Creation Systems
1 A Capital Idea
1.1 Converting Sunshine to Capital
1.2 The Earth as a System
1.2.1 The Living Organism
1.2.2 The Battery
1.2.3 A Capital Creation System
1.3 The Two Capital Creation Systems
1.4 Systems Create Capital
1.4.1 System of Engagement
1.4.2 System of Framing
1.4.3 System of Inquiry
1.4.4 System of Production
1.4.5 System of Record
1.5 Capital and Systems
1.6 Summary
2 The Organization as a Capital Creation System
2.1 The Prestige Car Business
2.2 The Red Queen Effect
2.3 Forms of Capital Creation
2.4 Crucial Capital
2.5 Competitive Success
2.6 Summary
3 The Growth of the Capital Creation System
3.1 Turning Points in Capital Creation
3.1.1 Natural Capital
3.1.1.1 The Green Revolution
3.1.2 Economic Capital
3.1.2.1 Containerization
3.1.3 Human Capital
3.1.3.1 Public Health
3.1.4 Public Education
3.1.5 Organizational Capital
3.1.6 Social Capital
3.1.7 Symbolic Capital
3.1.7.1 The Age of Brands
3.2 Summary
4 Systems for Creating Capital
4.1 The Systems Imperative
4.2 Foundational Ideas
4.3 A Typology of Systems
4.4 Classification Completeness
4.5 The Interrelatedness of Systems
4.6 Efficiency and Effectiveness
4.7 Summary
5 Energy for Capital Creation
5.1 Measuring E′
5.2 Foraging for Energy
5.3 Farming for Energy
5.4 Animal Husbandry for Energy
5.5 Energizing the Industrial Revolution
5.6 The Shift to Renewables
5.7 The Eʹ Opportunity
5.8 Looking Forward
5.8.1 Generation of Electricity
5.9 Summary
6 Objects
6.1 Humans as Objects
6.2 Framing the Value Proposition
6.3 Object-Orientation: Achieving the Value Proposition
6.3.1 Know-What
6.3.2 Know-How
6.3.3 Know-Why
6.3.4 Ride-Sharing
6.4 New Capital Creation Systems
6.5 Mature Capital Creation Systems
6.6 Maturity Levels
6.7 Summary
7 The Future
7.1 Capital
7.1.1 Economic
7.1.2 Human
7.1.3 Natural
7.1.4 Organizational
7.1.5 Social
7.1.6 Symbolic
7.2 Systems
7.2.1 Systems of Engagement
7.2.2 Systems of Framing
7.2.3 Systems of Inquiry
7.2.3.1 The Problem of Rigid Ideologies
7.2.4 Systems of Production
7.2.5 Systems of Record
7.3 Objects
7.4 Conclusion
Capital Creation Mechanisms
8 Economic Capital
8.1 Economic → Economic
8.2 Human → Economic
8.3 Organizational → Economic
8.4 Natural → Economic
8.4.1 Management
8.4.2 Depletion
8.4.3 Recycling
8.5 Social → Economic
8.6 Symbolic → Economic
8.6.1 Complementary and Conversion
8.7 Summary
9 Human Capital
9.1 Mass Education
9.2 Health Care
9.3 Economic → Human
9.4 Human → Human
9.5 Organizational → Human
9.6 Natural → Human
9.7 Social → Human
9.8 Symbolic → Human
9.9 Summary
10 Organizational Capital
10.1 Economic → Organizational
10.2 Human → Organizational
10.3 Organizational → Organizational
10.4 Natural → Organizational
10.5 Social → Organizational
10.5.1 Reviewing Systems
10.5.2 Help Systems
10.5.3 R&D Systems
10.5.4 Open Source Software
10.6 Symbolic → Organizational
10.7 Summary
11 Natural Capital
11.1 Economic → Natural
11.2 Human → Natural
11.3 Organizational → Natural
11.4 Natural → Natural
11.5 Social → Natural
11.6 Symbolic → Natural
11.7 Summary
12 Social Capital
12.1 Economic → Social
12.2 Human → Social
12.3 Organizational → Social
12.4 Natural → Social
12.5 Social → Social
12.5.1 A Two-Sided Market
12.5.2 A Two-Sided Market with Limits
12.5.3 A Platform
12.6 Symbolic → Social
12.7 Summary
13 Symbolic Capital
13.1 Economic → Symbolic
13.1.1 Dimensions of Closed and Open Brand Creation
13.2 Human → Symbolic
13.3 Organizational → Symbolic
13.4 Natural → Symbolic
13.5 Social → Symbolic
13.6 Symbolic → Symbolic
13.7 Summary
Capital and Systems Measurement
14 Capital and Systems Measurement
14.1 A Historical Perspective
14.2 Economic Capital
14.3 Human Capital
14.3.1 Educational Attainment
14.3.2 Job-Related Training
14.4 Natural Capital
14.5 Organizational Capital
14.5.1 Operational Systems
14.5.2 Analytical Systems
14.5.3 Strategic Systems
14.6 Social Capital
14.6.1 Management Relationships
14.6.2 Customers
14.7 Symbolic Capital
14.7.1 Brand Value
14.7.2 Brand Strength
14.7.3 Measuring Your Organization’s Symbolic Capital
14.8 Integrative Reporting
14.9 Summary
15 The Measurement of Systems
15.1 Systems of Engagement
15.2 System of Framing
15.3 Systems of Inquiry
15.3.1 R&D
15.3.2 The Outside-In Process
15.3.3 The Inside-Out Process
15.3.4 The Coupled Process
15.3.5 Data Analytics
15.3.6 Digital Twinning
15.3.7 White Papers
15.4 Systems of Production
15.5 Systems of Record
15.6 Business Process Modeling and Mining
15.7 Summary
Index