Stafford Beer

Viable System Model; management cybernetics.

Stafford Beer (1926–2002) was a British management consultant and theorist who founded the field of management cybernetics. He developed the Viable System Model, a framework for diagnosing and designing organisations based on the structure of the nervous system. He is also known for Project Cybersyn, an ambitious attempt to apply real-time cybernetic control to Chile's economy under Salvador Allende.