The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances. - Anthony Stafford Beer

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

General Systems Theory, as originally intended by Von Bertalanffy, is an ideal framework for the modeling of a business enterprise. Work, in its most civilized form should enrich, empower and emancipate. Thus we must continue to find ways to support work as a humanistic, not mechanistic endeavor. We must continue to seek out new models of business that support and enhance the individual as well as the collective whole. Given all this new technology, we need new institutions for handling it.