C. West Churchman
Dr. Churchman has a worldwide reputation as an intellectual leader in systems thinking.  He probably coined the term, "systems approach." 
Russell L. Ackoff is probably his most famous student.

West Churchman's Home Page

Lectures and essays by Professor Churchman

The gEm On-line Conversation/Listserve

Books by Russell Lincoln Ackoff

Ackoff's Disciplinary Matrix


Left to right:  Dr. David Salisbury, Associate Professor, Center for Performance Technology.  C. West Churchman, Professor, University of California at Berkeley.  Robert K. Branson, Director, Center for Performance Technology.   Barbara L. McCombs, Senior Scientist, Mid-Continent Educational Research Laboratory, Denver.  Dr. McCombs took her Ph.D. in the FSU Computer Assisted Instruction Center, an organization that was absorbed into CPT in 1976.

They are awaiting transportation to an elegant sushi dinner when this photo was taken at a 1991 futures conference in Aspen.