Stafford Beer The Father of Management Cybernetics: Big Data Analysis including Cybernetic Glossary

Beer, Vanilla; Leonard, Allenna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1073031217 ISBN 13: 9781073031214

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Stafford Beer worked in industry and his analytical methods grew out of his experiences there. In an attempt to explain his Viable System Model (the VSM) and other ideas the authors have described the route by which he arrived at his solutions. This was Staffords preferred teaching method, contextualizing his thinking.There is nothing theoretical about his solutions - they are all grounded in practice. Their successful application caused him to be invited to work for Salvador Allende in Chile and for many other companies and governments. His insistence that hierarchical models will fail the people whom they are supposed to serve is axiomatic to his thinking.Vanilla Beer is an artist and Staffords daughter : Dr Allenna Leonard is a practicing cybernetician and Staffords life partner.