General Systems Theory

General Systems Theory

1. explains that each entity is a system that has participants or subsystems necessary for operation

   • Concepts
     • system environment boundary
     • input
     • output
     • process
     • state
     • hierarchy
     • goal directedness
     • information

2. example: Company

   • Input
     • Process
       • Output
   • Cowhide (raw material)
     • manufacture
       • Handbags, Wallet, leather jackets
   • State
     • information
       • Goal Directedness
         • Hierarchy
           • System environment boundary

3. History

   • 1936
     • Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
       • developed GST to solve a problem
   • 1955
     • Ross Ashby
       • the theory is promoted
         • was widely influential in cybernetic, systems theory and complex systems

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