5 Posts found for Author: Russell L. Ackoff

We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Content: Quotation | Author: Russell L. Ackoff | Subjects: Management, Personal Development, Success / Failure

We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Content: Quotation | Author: Russell L. Ackoff | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Experience is not the best teacher; it is not even a good teacher. It is too slow, too imprecise, and too ambiguous. Experimentation is faster, more precise, and less ambiguous. We have to design systems which are managed experimentally, as opposed to experientially.

Content: Quotation | Author: Russell L. Ackoff | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Experience

Over a number of years I have worked on the development of at least five catapulting ideas. They are the product of an approach to organizational problems that I first formulated in 1974 under the name “idealized redesign of the corporation.” Rather than merely solving problems, this approach dissolves them. To solve a problem is to change the effects of one or more undesirable causes; … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Russell L. Ackoff | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Presents a participative, systems approach to corporate development, called Interactive Planning. Shows how to formulate the problems and opportunities of corporate growth, as well as presenting objectives and ideals to be pursued and the means toward those ends. Also stresses the implementation and control of the planning function.

Content: Book | Author: Russell L. Ackoff | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior