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  2. Ferdinand P. Beer - Wikipedia

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    Ferdinand Pierre Beer (August 8, 1915 – April 30, 2003) was a French mechanical engineer and university professor. He spent most of his career as a member of the faculty at Lehigh University , where he served as the chairman of the mechanics and mechanical engineering departments.

  3. David Limebeer - Wikipedia

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    Limebeer is known for his contributions in engineering dynamics, with his contributions spanning electrical machines, robust control theory, and vehicle dynamics. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and books, including Linear Robust Control (with Michael Green), and Dynamics and Optimal Control of Road Vehicles (with Matteo Massaro).

  4. Beer distribution game - Wikipedia

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    The beer distribution game (also known as the beer game) is an educational game that is used to experience typical coordination problems of a supply chain process. It reflects a role-play simulation where several participants play with each other.

  5. The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia

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    Whereas a cybernetician may apply the principle to the results inexorably produced by the mechanical dynamics of an activity system, a management scientist may apply it to the results produced by the self-interest of actors who play roles in a business or other institution.

  6. Viable system model - Wikipedia

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    Here we give a brief introduction to the cybernetic description of the organization encapsulated in a single level of the VSM. [2]A viable system is composed of five interacting subsystems which may be mapped onto aspects of organizational structure.

  7. Stafford Beer - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. [1] He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics .

  8. Polytely - Wikipedia

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    Polytely is a feature of complex problem-solving that adds difficulty to finding an optimum solution. Funke describes polytely as a feature "not... inherent in a system, but [referring] to certain decisions of the experimenter", especially decisions relating to what goals are to be followed in solving the problem. [ 2 ]

  9. History of beer - Wikipedia

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    Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...