Systems Theory - Jefferson Roth

Systems Theory - Jefferson Roth

1. History

   • Bertalanffy
     • Developed GST
     • Most famous book in GST
     • Published individual growth model
   • Ashby
     • President for General Systems research
     • Influential in Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complex systems

2. What is?

   • GST is generic and could be applied to different fields

3. GST Facts

   • Bertalanffy expressed that reals systems are exposed to, and work together with, their environment and can obtain qualitatively new properties trough development resulting in constant development
   • Systems Concepts
     • System-environment boundary
     • Input
     • Output
     • Process
     • State
     • Hierarchy
     • Goal Directedness
     • Information

4. Relevance

   • GST encompasses all disciplines that utilizes systems
   • Great emphasis in Information Systems as time and technologies envolved
   • Many top companies are systems theory based

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