Industrial Dynamics: A Major Breakthrough for Decision Makers

Jay W. Forrester
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Jay W. Forrester: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A chapter in The Roots of Logistics, 2012, pp 141-172 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the introduction to his 1958 article about Industrial Dynamics Jay W. Forrester (born 1918), a pioneer in computer engineering, a systems scientist and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, made a statement which anticipates one of the premises on which the importance of modern logistics rests: “company success depends on the interaction between the flows of information, materials, money, manpower, and capital equipment”.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27922-5_13

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