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Ackoff Collaboratory
The Ackoff Center Weblog is our entrée into the world of blogs! We seek to provide a forum where systems thinkers can interact and occasionally comment on/discuss issues affecting them and their organizations. The Ackoff Center Weblog will also provide an opportunity for you to keep up with the latest research in the field and to share your own experiences.
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Russell Ackoff Videos
New Ackoff videos have been posted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJxWoZJAD8k (part 1 on the difference between analysis and synthesis... only synthesis answers the question "Why?" as contrasted with "What?") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdBiXbuD1h4 (part 2 on the difference between analysis and synthesis... including talking...
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Stefan Stern's top 20th-century management theorists
From Financial Times FT.com By Stefan Stern Published: November 22 2008 02:00 | Last updated: November 22 2008 02:00 Drucker(1909-2005): the original and best. He said most of it, really, over seven productive decades. He also said people only called...
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Short Profile of Russell L. Ackoff
We are delighted to have permission to post here a short profile of Russell L. Ackoff that will appear in late 2008 or early 2009 as part of a book of profiles of major figures in Operations Research. The profile...
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How to sweep away a safety mess
In the current issue of ISHN, James E. Leemann, Ph.D. writes: " The safety and occupational health world is a total mess." He defines the "mess", and proposes the systems approach to dissolving the mess, based on the work of...
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