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The requirement to understand is paramount to survival; to understand complexity requires that it can be quantified. This paper seeks to explain one of the effects contributing to the complex nature of organisations. the brain efficiently handles and processes information to retain a continuous picture of the relationships between events. This provides the holistic view of organisations. Complexity occurs when the structure of an organisation is too large for personal retention. the problem is then one of making information available to assist in retaining a coherent and uniform perception of the organisation.
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Dunderdale, P. (1993). Systems Synthesis. In: Stowell, F.A., West, D., Howell, J.G. (eds) Systems Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2862-3_19
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