Russell L. Ackoff

Thinkers1919 to 2009Systems scientist

Works

  • Management Misinformation Systems, Management Science 14(4), 1967

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A pioneer of operations research in the United States who later turned to systems thinking about organizations. His 1967 paper argued that managers suffer less from a lack of relevant information than from an overload of irrelevant information, and that a management information system fails when it is built without a model of the decisions it is meant to serve.

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