A Conceptual Model of System Synergy Management Based on Emergence Mechanism - Take the Constuction Project System as Example

Studies show that the system thinking is a pattern of thinking following the emergence theory. Emergence theory gives a new perspective to promote the development and to improve the performance of complex systems. The happening of system emergence is a very complex process, but it isn´t mysterious. When and where emergent properties would appear and what emergent properties would come forth can be forecasted by setting up conceptual model and framework. The following work has been done in this paper. Firstly, emergence mechanism is introduced. Based on emergence mechanism, emergence comes from component effect, structure effect and environment effect. Secondly, synergy management, especially interface synergy is proved to be one of effective ways to induce emergence by analyzing its emergent properties. Then the emergence process through interface synergy is discussed, the conceptual model of system interface synergy inducing emergence is established and the generalized flow of interface synergy is summarized. Finally, this paper takes the system of construction project as an example to illustrate the application of synergy management.