Web video of #OCADU #SFI Understanding Systems week 2 lecture on Systems Approaches. Incorporates doing literature reviews aided by Gen AI. #PatternLanguage #OpenSource #RussellAckoff #EricTrist #SystemsThinking

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-approaches-project-language-lit-reviews-gen-ai/

Reporting on research-in-progress on Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in #SystemsThinking tracing history of #pragmatism of #EricTrist + #FredEEmery & #WestChurchman + #RussellAckoff.

Web video with #GarySMetcalf after #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences meeting

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sciencing-philosophizing-st-on-2023-07-10/

"This book is very ackoffy!"
#RussellAckoff #Ackoff #systemsthinking #systemstheory #complexity #betacodex

High quality content - a speech about systems, life, universe and ways of thinking. #QualityOfLife #development #RussellAckoff https://youtu.be/9p6vrULecFI

Introduction to #OperationsResearch by #WestChurchman #RussellAckoff #LeonardArnoff was published 1957. https://archive.org/details/introductiontoo00chur/page/n7/mode/2up

Then in proposing #SystemsThinking, look forward by 22 years, in a presentation and paper to the Operations Research Society.

Ackoff, Russell L. 1979. “The Future of Operational Research Is Past.” _Journal of the Operational Research Society_ 30 (2): 93–104. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1979.22.

(Thanks for pointing out the archived source,
@cyetain ).