Stafford Beer: Difference between revisions

In 1961 he left United Steel to start an operational research consultancy in partnership with [[Roger Eddison]] called [[Sigma_(operations_research)|SIGMA]] (Science in General Management). Beer left SIGMA in 1966 to work for a SIGMA client, the [[IPC Media|International Publishing Corporation]] (IPC). He left IPC in 1970 to work as an independent consultant, focusing on his growing interest in social systems.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

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