Russell L. Ackoff
Wikipedia: Russell Ackoff
Systems Thinking concepts: Definition of a system with 5 Conditions, defined and emergent properties
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Definition of System used as primary source from the book
Management Concepts: Interactive Planning, multi-dimensional organisational design, idealised design
Beyond Continuous Improvement (A Video)
From Mechanistic to System Thinking (A Video)
Systems Lecture (Early version of From Mechanistic to System Thinking) (A Video)
Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom
Data to Wisdom and the alignment of purpose to a system (A Video)
My Primary Source: All of Russell Ackoff's concepts are in this book.
This Author relates to the following books and Enterprise as a System of Systems (SoS) elements.
Book References
Creating the Corporate Future, Russell Ackoff
Re-Creating the Corporation, Russell L. Ackoff
On Purposeful Systems, Russell L. Ackoff and Fred E. Emery
Idealized Design, Russell L. Ackoff and Jason Magidson and Herbert J. Addison