The Law and the Profits
| Date | 01 January 1971 |
| Author | Stafford Beer |
| Published date | 01 January 1971 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7104400105 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
The
Law
and
The
Profits
THE SIXTH
FRANK
NEWSAM
MEMORIAL LECTURE
GIVEN BY
PROFESSOR STAFFORD BEER
Visiting Professor of Cybernetics,
Manchester University and Business School;
Visiting Professor
of
General Systems, The
Open University; President of the
Operational Research Society (London).
AT
THE
POLICE COLLEGE, BRAMSHILL
ON
OCTOBER 29, 1970
January 1971 17
Stafford Beer
Mr. Stafford Beer is Visiting Professor of Cybernetics at Man-
chester University
and
Business School, Visiting Professor of General
Systems at the Open University, President of the Operational
Research Society (London), Vice President and Governor of the
Society for General Systems Research (Washington), Executive
Member of the United Kingdom Automation Council, and Lan-
chester Prizewinner for one of his books, Decision and Control,
which was judged the best contribution to the literature of manage-
ment science for 1966.
He was a pioneer of
both
operational research and cybernetics in
Britain.
For
thirteen years he was head of OR for United Steel. He
then founded SIGMA (Science in General Management Limited),
now incorporated in the
METRA
Consulting Group, and was
Managing Director for five years. The next four years were spent as
Development Director of the world's largest publishing company,
IPC. He is now a freelance consultant, on both sides of the Atlantic,
to government and industry.
18 January
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