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  • Established in honor of the 89th birthday of the late Professor Russell Ackoff.
  • Holds Professor Ackoff’s academic books, papers, manuscripts, photos, books written by students and colleagues who attribute thanks to him, and his personal library.
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Russell Lincoln Ackoff Systems Thinking Web Portal


Systems Thinkers

  • Stafford Beer
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  • Fred Emery

Links to other Systems Thinking Websites

  • Ackoff Collaboratory for Advancement of the Systems Approach (ACASA)
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  • International Society for the Systems Sciences
  • International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
  • Complexity, Self Adaptive Complex Systems, and Chaos Theory
  • IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • University of Hull Centre for Systems Studies (CSS)

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