Re-Creating the Corporation by Russell L. Ackoff

Author:Russell L. Ackoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

Requirements for Control, Learning, and Adaptation

Only entities that can display choice, that is, only purposeful individuals or systems, can learn and unlearn. Learning and unlearning can only take place in the context of decision making. Therefore, systems that support decision making should facilitate control and rapid and effective learning and unlearning and, of course, the acquisition and development of information, knowledge, and understanding. In addition, a Learning and Adaptation Support System should facilitate the following aspects of decision making:

• Identification and formulation of problems.

• Making decisions, that is, selecting a course of action.

• Implementing the decision made.

• Controlling implementation of the decision, its effects and the assumptions on which it is based.

• Providing the information required to carry out these functions.

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