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RRP: £34.85 Perfect Paperback: 376 pages Publisher: Campus Verlag (1 Dec. 1992) ISBN: 3593347830
RRP: £25 Hardcover: 412 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition (27 July 1990) ISBN: 0471927163
"Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications, Second Edition" is brought forward by Brian Wilson Department of Systems and Information Management, Lancaster University, UK. The result of many years' experience, this book, now extensively revised and updated, emphasizes the application of systems concepts and methodologies that have ... Read more
RRP: £47.30 Paperback: 386 pages Publisher: Wiley; 2nd edition (17 Oct. 2001) ISBN: 0471495239
Now, more than ever, planning and managing in the real world is beset by change and uncertainty. Knowledge is incomplete, values are in dispute, decisions of others are often unpredictable. Sheathed in opaque technicalities, inflexible and over--ambitious, the highly mathematical methods of analysing problem situations are no longer considered ac... Read more
RRP: £73.54 Hardcover: 484 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (26 July 1989) ISBN: 0471922889
A primer and casebook on the theory and practice of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). Explains the VSM model, and demonstrates how it works. Case studies show practical applications of the VSM model, including discussion of implementation issues.
RRP: ~£40 Paperback: 178 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New edition (28 Sep 1994) ISBN: 0471951366
In Brain of the Firm and The Heart of Enterprise Stafford Beer worked out the scientific laws that govern any viable system. They constitute the basis for this book which is concerned solely with the application of those laws to the understanding of any particular enterprise. In the form of a Handbook or Manager's Guide, Diagnosing t... Read more
Out of Print Paperback: 263 pages Publisher: Routledge; Reprint edition (1 Jan. 1991) ISBN: 2881245188
RRP: £41.46 Paperback: 424 pages Publisher: JW; New Ed edition (16 Sept. 1999) ISBN: 9780471986065
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice "Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology research for that decade." Hamish Rennie, Journal of the Operational Research Society... Read more
RRP: £84.95 Paperback: 563 pages Publisher: Productivity Press; New edition edition (1 Dec. 1981)
ISBN: 0915299593
How do you apply the principles and tools of system dynamics to management, modeling, planning, and forecasting? The contributing authors of this anthology address this question in essays on complex corporate models, workload fluctuations, the "Honeywell experience," the growth strategies of a trucking company, aging organiz... Read more
RRP: £44 Paperback: 600 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New Ed edition (28 Mar. 1995) ISBN: 0471948373
This is the companion volume to Brain of the Firm and addresses the nature of viable systems, those capable of surviving. It does not use the neurophysiological basis elucidated in brain, but develops the same theory from first principles. This book declares that every enterprise is a system, and in particular must be a viable system... Read more
RRP: £23 Paperback: 279 pages Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.; 25 Silver anniversary ed edition (15 April 2001) ISBN-10: 0932633498 For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all over the world, the text has proven its abili... Read more
