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Harnden - Diagnosing the System for Organizations - 9780471951360 - V9780471951360
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Diagnosing the System for Organizations

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Description for Diagnosing the System for Organizations Paperback. Explains how to design or redesign an enterprise through the process of diagnosing organizational faults and weaknesses. At the core of this study is an analysis of the fundamental problems of management - how to cope with the complexities of business practice. Series: Classic Beer Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMD; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world?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."
Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA.

"If ... anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer ... everyone in management ... should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and?even elegant diagrams."
The Economist

In Brain of the ... Read more 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 the System deals with the fundamental problem of management?how to cope with complexity itself. It shows you how to design (or redesign) an enterprise in conformity with the laws of viability, and will help you to diagnose faults in your organizational structure.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Classic Beer Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471951360
SKU
V9780471951360
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About Harnden
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.

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