By Rejecting the Status Quo, Russ Ackoff Took Systems Thinking to Greater...
After World WAr II, the U.S. War Production Board sought to preserve the scientific knowledge gained during the war support efforts. Major advances expanded theoretical knowledge, such as the...
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Russell L. Ackoff Keynote Speech at the Hull University Business School, 2005 When I retired from Wharton as a member of the regular faculty and became emeritus I was asked to reflect on the value of...
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By Skip Walter In 1986, while managing Digital Equipment Corporation’s ALL-IN-1 $1B per year office automation development efforts, a colleague sent me a copy of Russ Ackoff’s Creating the Corporate...
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John Pourdehnad PhD, University of Pennsylvania Larry M. Starr PhD, Philadelphia University Lately, many social systems (i.e., countries, organizations and projects) are experiencing adverse...
View ArticleTo Combat Terrorism, a Systems Approach is Vital
From July, 2002 Russell L. Ackoff is an emeritus professor at Wharton and a leading proponent of systems theory. He recently attended a meeting where economists and other experts were weighing the...
View ArticleAckoff's rules of system interdependency, Part I
BY Gordon Housworth -- From ICG Blog "Anyone familiar with my systems side knows that I treasure Russ Ackoff, whose three rules of system interdependency are never far from hand when approaching any...
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Governing the Anthropocene: the greatest challenge for systems thinking in practice? The 59th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences will be held in Berlin, Germany, August 2 -...
View ArticleThe 59th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
ISSS2015 Call for Papers: EXTENDED! Abstracts to be included in the #ISSS2015 Conference Program need to be submitted by 2 July at the latest. Full papers can be uploaded onto the online Journal after...
View ArticleLearn Change Leadership From Two Great Teachers
By Michael Maccoby Research Technology Management; Vol. 53, No. 2 March-April 2010 pp. 68-69. If you need to change your organization, to make it more efficient and effective, I advise you to first...
View ArticleBuilding on the Work of Ackoff, Deming, and Fromm
Strategic Intelligence: Conceptual Tools for Leading Change Michael Maccoby Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780199682386 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2015 Building on...
View ArticleAn Interview with Russell L. Ackoff
By Glenn Detrick – Academy of Management Learning and Education Volume 1, Issue 1 September 2002 Russell L. Ackoff is one of the pioneers in management education. With an undergraduate degree in...
View ArticleFailing With Single-Point Solutions: Systems Thinking For National Security
by Daniel McCauley Journal Article | September 29, 2015 I have a problem with the Sunday morning political talk shows that our nation’s leaders use as a testing ground for solutions to the challenges,...
View ArticleTERRORISM: A SYSTEMIC VIEW
Russell L. Ackoff and Johan P. Strümpfer Broadly speaking “terrorism” is regarded as extremely violent behavior by what is normally considered to be a minority subgroup of society. The value system in...
View Article6 PhD Scholarships in the Centre for Systems Studies, Hull University...
The Centre for Systems Studies, based in the Business School at the University of Hull (UK), has a strong international reputation for its cutting edge work on the theory, methodology and practice of...
View ArticleCornell Policy Review: Special Edition: Systems Thinking
Posted February 18, 2016 by Cornell Policy Review Systems are ubiquitous. From our devices and networks to our social constructs, we are surrounded by complexity and its accompanying difficulties. For...
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