operations research

🇺🇸Russell L. Ackoff

Science

1919–2009

"A corporation that fails to see itself as an instrument of all its stakeholders will probably fail to use them, and be used by them, effectively enough to survive in the emerging environment."

🇬🇧W. Brian Arthur

Economics

b. 1946

"As we begin to understand, we begin to understand that we’re part of an ever-changing, interlocking, non-linear, kaleidoscopic world."

"This text grew from the lecture material for the "Short Course in Operations Research" which has been offered annually by Case Institute of Technology."

🇬🇧Anthony Stafford Beer

operations research

1926–2002

"A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well."