Cybernetics and Management (Unibooks)

Computers & Technology

Stafford Beer

Computer Science

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

<p>Presents the basic approaches underlying Stafford Beer's thinking since the publication of his first book in 1959. Deals with a philosophy of science relevant to management and particularly with the nature of models. Demonstrates all major points through examples quoted of management science applications to industry and government.</p>

Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

wiley

"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer everyone in management should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and even elegant diagrams." The Economist Based on the Massey Lectures, this book examines the reasons why the institutions of our society may well be failing, and opens a discussion as to what could be done. Drawing on the science of effective organization, which is his definition of cybernetics, Stafford Beer explains key cybernetic principles in words and pictures that all can understand. He concludes that our society commits more and more resources to plastering over the cracks in the system which simply reappear while freedom itself is increasingly eroded. The institutions must be redesigned, and returned to the people, to whom the scientific tools for doing this ought to belong.

Designing Freedom (Wiley Service Management Series)

Science & Math

Research

John Wiley&Sons

The management of complex enterprises, in government, in business, or in the military services, is certainly the most important practical activity in which individual men engage. Yet it is one of the most recent to seek assistance directly from the formal apparatus of science. In this book one of the pioneers in the field tells something of the occasion for, and the methods and achievements of,the scientific approach to management problems.

Management science: The business use of operations research (Aldus science and technology series)

Aldus Books Ltd

Management Science (Science & Technology)

Think Before You Think: Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing

Wavestone Press

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