STREAMS People Pages
Contents
- 1 Russell Ackoff
- 2 W. Ross Ashby
- 3 Chris Argyris
- 4 Gregory Bateson
- 5 Roy Bhaskar
- 6 Stafford Beer
- 7 Mario Bunge
- 8 Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
- 9 Kenneth Boulding
- 10 Peter Checkland
- 11 C. West Churchman
- 12 Jay Forrester
- 13 Joyce Fortune
- 14 Jurgen Habermas
- 15 David Hume
- 16 Michael Jackson
- 17 John Kotter
- 18 Kurt Lewin
- 19 Humberto Maturana
- 20 Margaret Mead
- 21 Donella Meadows
- 22 Gerald Midgley
- 23 John Mingers
- 24 George Mitchell
- 25 Richard Ormerod
- 26 Geoff Peters
- 27 Ilya Prigogine
- 28 Karl Popper
- 29 Jeanne Ross
- 30 Donald Schön
- 31 Peter Senge
- 32 Stephen Spewak
- 33 Eric Trist
- 34 Werner Ulrich
- 35 Francisco Varela
- 36 Geoffrey Vickers
- 37 Max Weber
- 38 Peter Weill
- 39 Norbert Wiener
- 40 Brian Wilson
- 41 John Zachman
- 42 Navigation
Russell Ackoff
Ackoff, Russell L. (1919-2009) - Former Professor of Management Science at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, author of the Management f-Laws and well known Systems Thinker.
W. Ross Ashby
Chris Argyris
Gregory Bateson
Roy Bhaskar
Bhaskar, R. - A non-mainstream philosopher and founder of [Critical Realism], author of "A Realist Theory of Science", and World Scholar at the London University Institutue of Education.
Stafford Beer
Beer, A.S. (1926-2002) was a professor at Manchester Business School (University of Manchester, UK) and one of the leading figures in British Operational Research - the more holistic UK counterpart of the US "Operations Research". He is also regarded as the founder of the Management Cybernetics tradition in Systems Thinking and creator of the Viable Systems Model. He was also director of the company he founded: SIGMA - Science In General MAnagement - Ltd. - the first substantial Operational Research consultancy company in the UK. He was also the author of "The Brain Of The Firm".
Mario Bunge
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
Kenneth Boulding
Peter Checkland
(1930- - )
C. West Churchman
Churchman, C. West - Former professor of Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley and founder of the [US] Institute of Operations Research and Management Science, co-author of "Introduction to Operations Research".
Jay Forrester
Forrester, J.W. (1918-2016) was a Systems Engineer and emeritus professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was commissioned to investigate supply-chain instability and described the "bullwhip effect" which was understood by applying the principles and knowledge of Systems Engineering to what was an organisational / management problem. His book "Industrial Dynamics" marked the start of the System Dynamics tradition in Systems Thinking.
Joyce Fortune
Jurgen Habermas
David Hume
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is emeritus professor of Management Systems at the University of Hull. His Hull university profile page is here. He also has a page in wikipedia here.
John Kotter
Kurt Lewin
Humberto Maturana
Margaret Mead
Donella Meadows
Gerald Midgley
Author of a number of texts on Systems Thinking including Systems Thinking Vols. I - IV, Professor of Systems Thinking and Director, Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull. His university profile page is here.
John Mingers
John Mingers is Professor of Operational Research and Systems and the University of Kent. His profile is here.
George Mitchell
Mitchell, G. - Former president of the Operational Research Society and author of "The Practice of Operational Research".
Richard Ormerod
Richard Ormerod is well-known in the Operational Research community and is an emritus professor at the University of Warwick. His University of Warwick profile page is here. He can be found on LinkedIn here.
Geoff Peters
Ilya Prigogine
Karl Popper
Popper, Karl, R. - One of the greatest philosophers of the Twentieth Century and author of "Logik der Forschung" translated as "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", "Conjectures and Refutations", and "Objective Knowledge".
Jeanne Ross
Donald Schön
Peter Senge
Stephen Spewak
Eric Trist
Werner Ulrich
Francisco Varela
Geoffrey Vickers
(1894-1982)
Sir Geoffry Vickers Lawyer, administrator and pioneering Systems Thinker. Vickers is credited with the establishment of social systems thinking and the development of the Appreciative Systems model - ie the application of Systems Thinking to social systems and the influence of cognition and judgment in such systems.
Max Weber
Peter Weill
Norbert Wiener
Brian Wilson
John Zachman
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