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作者简介：
RUSSELL L.ACLPFF is Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science,The Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania.He was a School's Social Systems Sciences Department,as well as the Busch Center,research,and design.
Dr.Ackoff is author and co-author of 22 books,including Redesigning the Future,The Art of Problem Solving,Creating the Corporate Future,Revitalizing Western Economies,Management in Small Doses,Ackoff's Fables,The Democratic Corporation,and his most recent books Re-Creating the Corporation,Ackoff's Best,Redesigning Society,and Beating the System,the latter two with Sheldon Rovin.His work in research,consulting,and education has involved more than 350 corporation has 75 government agencies in the United States and aroad.
Dr.Ackoff played a key role at the University of Pennsylvania,both in the early history of the Operations Research Group and in establishing the Social Systems Sciences Graduate Group.Since becoming Emeritus,he has been honored by the establishment of the Russell.ackoff Endowment in the Wharton School and The Ackoff Center for the Advancement of Systems Approaches in the Engineering School,through which his legacy at the University of Pennsylvania continues.
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What's the best way to drive fundamental, transformative change within your organization? Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. It's called idealized design, and -- as executives in hundreds of organizations will testify -- it's one of the most powerful techniques you'll ever use. Authored by its legendary creator, Wharton Professor Emeritus Russell Ackoff, and leading practitioner Jason Magidson, Idealized Design covers every facet of this breakthrough methodology. You'll learn the fundamental differences between idealized design and traditional process re-engineering, and understand how idealized design eliminates many conventional obstacles to change. Start-to-finish techniques and examples drawn from hundreds of companies, non-profits, and government organizations will show you how to use idealized design to solve your own crisis of tomorrow...today.