Stafford Beer

The Heart of Enterprise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the worlda 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.

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Produktdetails

• Classic Beer Series
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9780471948377
• ISBN-10: 0471948373
• Artikelnr.: 22406302

Autorenporträt

Stafford Beer was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.

Inhaltsangabe

CONCEPTS, PERCEPTS, PRECEPTS.
An Entry.
Double Entry.
Emergency Exit.
The Exit.
Bases of Viability.
THE VIABLE SYSTEM.
Freedom.
Constraint.
Inside and Now.
Outside and Then.
Metasystem.
VENTURES IN VIABILITY.
Measurement.
Plots...
...And Plans.
Calm and Alarm.
Life and Death.
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT: Notes on Implementation.
On Success.
Graphical Distortions of the Model.
Substantive Elaborations of the Model.
Cyberfilter and the Time Barrier.
The Evolution of a Management Cybernetics Process.
Appendices.
Index.