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Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management

ISBN: 978-0-471-31634-3
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368 pages
February 1999
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SYSTEMS.

Our Changing Concept of the World.

Reflections on Systems and Their Models.

Growth versus Development.

Toward a System of Systems Concepts.

Beating the System.

PLANNING.

The Nature of Planning.

Alternative Types of Planning.

Problem Treatments.

Mess Management.

Ends Planning.@aMission Statements.

Creativity and Constraints.

APPLICATIONS.

Consumer Design.

Education.@aNever Let Your Schooling Interfere with Your Education.

Crime.

The Effect of Advertising on Sales: A Study of Relations.

On Pairs and Trios: The Smallest Social Systems.

Why People Drink: Toward Understanding Objectives.

Corporate Perestroika: The Internal Market Economy.

Design of Management Systems.

SCIENCE.

The Nature of Science and Methodology.

Objectivity.

Rationality.

The Future of Operational Research Is Past.

Epilogue: The Role of Business in a Democratic Society.

Index.
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