war. data. systems thinking. fundamentals of management thought week 9. ucd

FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT. WEEK 9

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Week 1@johnnyryan

Leaving Cert is about

remembering facts

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University is about making

arguments

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MANAGEMENT

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AUTHORITY OF EXPERTISE

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THE SELF ISIRRATIONAL

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MANAGERLABOUR

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Week 7

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‘Big Ivan’ (largest ever nuke), 1961

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The centralized network is obviously vulnerable as destruction of a single node destroys communica-tion between the end stations.

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Paul Baran

On Distributed Networking (1962)

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The Emerging Patternis Centrifugal

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War. Data. Systems Thinking. Week 9

Week 9@johnnyryan

Johnny Ryan, A history of the Internet and the digital future, pp. 11-22.

Errol Morris, “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara” (2003), movie. In Library, on Netflix and elsewhere.

Chris Grey, A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying organisations, pages 61-81.

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WAR. DATA.

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WAR OF TECHNOLOGY

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New frontiers of the mind are before us, and if they are pioneered with the same vision, boldness, and drive with which we have waged this war we can create a fuller and more fruitful employment and a fuller and more fruitful life . . . What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research . . . so that the continuing future of scientific research in this country may be assured on a level comparable to what has been done during the war?

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- President Roosevelt

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ENTER THE COMPUTER

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MINDMUSCLEMechanical force Cognitive thought

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Steam or electricity Data & computers Industrial revolution Computer revolution

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SYSTEMSTHINKING

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"The whole is more than the

sum of its parts"-Aristotle

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-LudwigvonBertalanffy,1972

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open system

surroundings

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World Dynamics!

1. WW2 + Cold War pushed the bounds of computing & data

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1. WW2 + Cold War pushed the bounds of computing & data 2. Computers could augment the human intellect

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1. WW2 + Cold War pushed the bounds of computing & data 2. Computers could augment the human intellect 3. And so, might it be possible to have a holistic view of every aspect?

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Week 10@johnnyryan

Johnny Ryan, A history of the Internet and the digital future (London: Reaktion, 2010). Especially pages 7-8, 50-52, 146-148, 173-177.

Chris Grey, A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying organisations (London: Sage, 2013), pages 81-104.

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