Stafford Beer

Stafford Beer
Beer in 1990
Born
Anthony Stafford Beer

(1926-09-25)25 September 1926
Fulham, London, England
Died23 August 2002(2002-08-23) (aged 75)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationsTheorist, consultant, professor
Known forOperational research, management cybernetics

Anthony Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at Manchester Business School. He is known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics, and for his heuristic in systems thinking, "the purpose of a system is what it does."

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