Managing Complexity: A Discussion of Current Strategies and Approaches

The “Complex” view of reality is important in understanding the activities of an organization. The inclusion of complexity in management discourse is therefore a natural consequence. Despite this increasing importance, most companies have not introduced or implemented yet a complexity management system/approach or they do not know, if the used complexity management strategy and methods, are efficient and adequate. The aim of this paper is to point out which the strategies and models can be useful method to management complexity. In practice, proposed models are often maturity models. The various levels of maturity within such models can be used to describe the different achievable skill levels. The features of the areas of maturity models have been indicated as elements one of selected complexity management approach. We conclude how this approach may help in management and complexity decision-making support.