development corporation controlling architecture

books:

A Prologue to National Development Planning (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

1 review
Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Russell L. Ackoff

Greenwood Press, 1986

Great addition to economics...
This book is a very good supplement to any economics library, as it seeks to develop ideas of idealized designs for a country to gain development. It seeks to understand what parameters predispose a country for development, rather than taking the usual hands-off approach classical economics does. It takes the "transaction economics" ideas developed by Williamson and Coase one step further, in ...

A Guide to Controlling Your Corporation's Future
Russell L. Ackoff, Elsa Vergara Finnel, ...

Wiley, 1984

Praise for Russell Ackoff?s previous book: Creating the Corporate Future &146;Russell Ackoff is a compelling and thoughtful writer?His ability to think in historical terms about the development of work and work organizations and to put in perspective the short-term dilemmas today?s manager must face puts him in a class of explainer populated by the likes of Harry Levinson and Lewis Thomas?. Creating the Corporate Future [is] compelling, ...

Systems Thinking
Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Systems Thinking, Second Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business ...

24 reviews
Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Don't be afraid,
This is really aimed at the reader who wishes to work on the transformation of whole organisations. Demonstrating the multi-dimensional relationships between organisational design, performance and behaviour. This work has had a profound effect on my thinking and development of management ideas. It integrates many concepts into a systemic whole. I have used this book with many management teams ...