Anthony Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best...

is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of...

principal architect of the system was British operations research scientist Stafford Beer, and the system embodied his notions of management cybernetics in industrial...

Ian David Stafford Beer CBE (born 28 April 1931) is an English former international rugby union player and schoolmaster. Born in Croydon, Beer is the younger...

operations research theorist and cybernetician Stafford Beer in his book Brain of the Firm (1972). Together with Beer's earlier works on cybernetics applied to...

and organizations. "Management cybernetics" was first introduced by Stafford Beer in the late 1950s and introduces the various mechanisms of self-regulation...

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science (MS) is known as using operations research models in business. Stafford Beer characterized this in 1967. Like operational research itself, management...

introduction to cybernetics (PDF). Chapman & Hall. Retrieved 3 June 2012. Beer, Stafford (1974). Designing freedom. Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley....

was taken up by the cyberneticians Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Stafford Beer; and von Foerster organized a conference on "The Principles of Self-Organization"...

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interacting (observer) participants. The founder of management cybernetics, Stafford Beer, applied these ideas most notably in his viable system model. In biology...

Russell Ackoff, Ruzena Bajcsy, Béla H. Bánáthy, Gregory Bateson, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Barbara Grosz, Brian Wilson, Robert L. Flood, Allenna...

to the corporate sector became known as management science. In 1967 Stafford Beer characterized the field of management science as "the business use of...

1967–1968. He was a mentor to the British operations research pioneer Stafford Beer. McCulloch had a range of interests and talents. In addition to his...

descriptions associated with them. The concept of viability arose with Stafford Beer in the 1950s through his paradigm of management systems. Its formal...

Team Syntegrity International, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration. She was president of the American...

autumn on Martha's Vineyard Viable system model, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system Viable system theory...

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including Herbert A. Simon, Norbert Wiener, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Stafford Beer, Stanley Milgram, and Stuart Kauffman. Ashby kept a journal for over...

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and Ed Popko have published primers that help popularize synergetics, Stafford Beer extended synergetics to applications in social dynamics, and J.F. Nystrom...

organization has been pitifully small. Stafford Beer took up this analysis in his writings on management cybernetics. Beer defines variety as "the total number...

producing 1.8 million tons per year. USC also employed the cybernetician Stafford Beer to run a simulation of a "cybernetic factory". After nationalisation...

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deliberative structures as a conceptual metaphor, especially in the work of Stafford Beer, whose "transmigration" method is based so specifically on dome design...

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Cantor set and the Sierpinski triangle. The viable system model of Stafford Beer is an organizational model with an affine self-similar hierarchy, where...

established by Henry Novy, Stafford Beer and Roger Eddison in 1961. It sold operational research OR in the United Kingdom and overseas. Beer was responsible for...

companies that did not have their own department. In 1961 he joined Stafford Beer in establishing SIGMA (Science in General Management), a management...