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RRP: £87 Hardcover: 380 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; First Edition edition (30 Aug. 1994) ISBN: 0471944513
The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness. The author discusses the theory of team syntegrity and the social technique of syntegration which works in practice, offering a potent manag... Read more
RRP: £11.78 Hardcover : 352 pages ISBN : 0813824079 Publisher : Iowa State University Press; 2nd Revised edition (1 Mar. 1994) Language: : English
This text first defines interactive management and then discusses the primary outcomes of IM use, the levels of success which may be selected, and phases of and roles important to its successful use. It also describes effective applications, results and meth... Read more
RRP: £34.85 Perfect Paperback: 376 pages Publisher: Campus Verlag (1 Dec. 1992) ISBN: 3593347830
RRP: £36.00 Paperback: 272 pp Publisher: Wiley; ISBN 978-1555424466
"This book is a landmark in two fields. It is a practical guide tothe reform of professional education. It is also a beacon totheoretical thinking about human organizations, about theirinterdepAndence with the social structure of the professions, andabout theory in practice." --Journal of Higher Education
"This is a fundamentally important book. It strike... Read more
RRP: £29.56 Paperback: 384 pp Publisher: Routledge; ISBN 978-1857423198
A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on... Read more
RRP: £25 Hardcover: 412 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition (27 July 1990) ISBN: 0471927163
"Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications, Second Edition" is brought forward by Brian Wilson Department of Systems and Information Management, Lancaster University, UK. The result of many years' experience, this book, now extensively revised and updated, emphasizes the application of systems concepts and meth... Read more
RRP: £73.54 Hardcover: 484 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (26 July 1989) ISBN: 0471922889
A primer and casebook on the theory and practice of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). Explains the VSM model, and demonstrates how it works. Case studies show practical applications of the VSM model, including discussion of implementation issues.
OOP but widely available from £2 - £12 Paperback : 288 pages ISBN : 0399550003 Publisher : TarcherPerigee; First Edition (1 Nov. 1988) Language: : English
Whether you're the owner of our own small business, a middle manager in a mid-sized company, or the CEO of a multinational, this book can show you how to improve your profits and productivity. How? By following the principles of The Deming Manage... Read more
RRP: £12.75 Hardcover : 520 pages ISBN : 0911379010 Publisher : MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study; Nineteenth Printing edition (1 Jun. 1986) Language: : English
According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1986, Deming offers a theor... Read more
RRP: ~£40 Paperback: 178 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New edition (28 Sep 1994) ISBN: 0471951366
In Brain of the Firm 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... Read more
