From System Science - A New Way to Structure and Manage the Company for Sustainable Success

William F. Christopher ()
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William F. Christopher: Management Innovations, The Kensington #237, 1580 Geary Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94597-2744, USA

Service Science, 2010, vol. 2, issue 1-2, 62-75

Abstract: This paper proposes a system science restructuring of today's management practices. The paper discusses what we have learned from system science that gives us a new and different understanding of what the company is, and how it works; and a new way of understanding the world outside the company where company success is created. System science restructures management practices at a new level of understanding; structuring the company to achieve its purpose, and changing and very much improving the way the company is managed. Stafford Beer's viable system model is a useful model for this restructuring. [ Service Science , ISSN 2164-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.]

Keywords: organization design; management principles; black boxes; variety; key performance areas; information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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