Anthony Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best...

is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of...

operations research theorist and cybernetician Stafford Beer in his book Brain of the Firm (1972). Together with Beer's earlier works on cybernetics applied to...

cinco, the number five, alluding to the five levels of Beer’s viable system model. Stafford Beer was a British consultant in management cybernetics. He...

and organizations. "Management cybernetics" was first introduced by Stafford Beer in the late 1950s and introduces the various mechanisms of self-regulation...

Team Syntegrity International, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration. She was president of the International...

extensively in government where evidence-based policy is used. In 1967, Stafford Beer characterized the field of management science as "the business use of...

second wave of cybernetics included management cybernetics, such as Stafford Beer's biologically inspired viable system model; work in family therapy,...

to the corporate sector became known as management science. In 1967 Stafford Beer characterized the field of management science as "the business use of...

descriptions associated with them. The concept of viability arose with Stafford Beer in the 1950s through his paradigm of management systems. Its formal...