Zusammenfassung der Ressource
General Systems Theory
- ¿What is General Systems Theory?
- Is that every part of an organization relates to each
other in a certain way and within, when you find those
relations it makes the complexity of an organization it
helps you map it out so that you can find your
business, based on the principles and concepts that
explains in organizations complex entities
- History Of General Systems Theory
- In a beginning they try to develope a single
theory that explains the entire system in all
fields since they are somehow related systems
- In 1936 Ludwing Von Bertalanffy developed the
general systems theory and the theory was
further developed by Ross Ashby in 1955.
- Biography Ludwing Von Bertalanffy
- Born september 19,
1901 in Atzgersdorf,
Austria
- studied philosophy of
science and biology at the
University of Vienna.
- His most famous
book on the General
Systems Theory
- He died in Buffalo, New
York in 1972
- Biography Ross Ashby
- Born september 6,
1903 in London.
- He studied and became
doctor at Cambridge
University
- He was president for the
Society of General
Systems research from
1962 - 1964
- He died in 1972
- GST Facts
- Bertalanffy expressed that real systems are
exposed to and work together with their
environment and can obtain qualitatively new
properties through development resulting constant
- The concepts and principles of organizations under
different disciplines this whole thing about general
systems theory is spread over many fields
- Systems concepts
include: In put, Out
put, Process, State,
Hierarchy, Goal
Directedness,
Information
- ¿How is GST relevant to
us?
- The General Systems
Theory encompasses all
disciplines that utilize
systems.
- As time and
technology
has evolved
there has
been great
emphasis on
Information
Systems.
- Many organizations such as
IBM and Texas Instruments
rely on this teory to help
their business run
efficiently.