Anthony Stafford Beer 25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002 was the British theorist, consultant & professor at a Manchester multinational School. He is best invited for his draw in the fields of operational research & management cybernetics.
According to Jackson 2000 "Beer was the number one to apply cybernetics to management, instituting cybernetics as the science of effective organization". In the 1960s and early 1970s "Beer was a prolific writer and an influential practitioner" in management cybernetics. It was during that period that he developed the viable system model, to troubleshoot the faults in any existing organizational system. In that time Forrester invented systems dynamics, which "held out the promise that the behavior of whole systems could be represented and understood through modeling the dynamical feedback process going on within them".
During the the 1973 coup d'état.
The Viable System advantage example VSM is a model of the organisational appearance of any viable or autonomous system. A viable system is any system organised in such a way as to meet the demands of surviving in the changing environment. One of the prime attaches of systems that draw up is that they are adaptable. The VSM expresses a model for a viable system, which is an abstracted cybernetic version that is applicable to any organisation that is a viable system and capable of autonomy.
Syntegrity is a formal model introduced by Beer in the 1990s and now is a registered trademark. this is the a form of non-hierarchical problem solving that can be used in a small team of 10 to 42 people. this is the a business acknowledgment product that is licensed out to consulting firms. The term comes from the words "synergistic" and "tensegrity".
Stafford Beer coined and frequently used the term POSIWID the aim of a system is what it does to refer to the normally observed phenomenon that the de facto goal of a system is often at odds with its official purpose. In an extension to the University of Valladolid, Spain in October 2001, he said "According to the cybernetician the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking apprehension than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices approximately expectations, moral judgment or sheer ignorance of circumstances."