Designing a National Scientific and Technological Communication System : The Scatt Report

Russell L Ackoff

ISBN 10: 0812277163 / ISBN 13: 9780812277166

Published by University Of Pennsylvania Press Mär 1976, 1976

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Neuware - Contributors: Russell L. Ackoff, Martin C. J. Elton, Thomas A Cowan, James C. Emery, Peter Davis, Marybeth L. Meditz, Wladimer M. Sachs. With the collaboration of William C. Donovan, Mohammad Jahani, and Jonathan V. Rosenhead.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing a National Scientific and Technological Communication System : The Scatt Report
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press Mär 1976
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812277163
• ISBN 13: 9780812277166
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 13D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 449 grams

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Contributors: Russell L. Ackoff, Martin C. J. Elton, Thomas A Cowan, James C. Emery, Peter Davis, Marybeth L. Meditz, Wladimer M. Sachs. With the collaboration of William C. Donovan, Mohammad Jahani, and Jonathan V. Rosenhead.

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From the Prologue

The primary purpose of the project reported here is not what it appears to be: to produce a design of a National Scientific Communication and Technology Transfer (SCATT) System that would in some sense be preferable to the one currently available. Rather, its purpose is to mobilize the large number of relatively autonomous subsystems of the current system into a collaborative effort directed at redesigning their system and implementing their design. The idealized design process used is intended to stimulate such a mobilization, and the design produced is intended to serve as a platform from which that mobilization can spring.