eprintid: 14059 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/01/40/59 datestamp: 2016-12-02 12:49:14 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:28:10 status_changed: 2016-12-02 12:49:14 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Tomlinson, R. creators_id: AL0385 title: Doing Something about the Future ispublished: pub divisions: prog_mmt abstract: This paper is concerned with the need for more interdisciplinary, systems oriented, research directed towards major problems encountered by decision makers in industry and government; a need which is more difficult to meet in the face of traditional methods of organising knowledge and research. It emphasises the need to acknowledge the true complexity of the problems and the interactive nature of any effective research procedure. As an illustration, both of the need and the problems involved in meeting it, the development of a new program of research into problems of Management and Technology at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, which is supported by seventeen nations of all political complexions, is analysed. The implication is that we can do something about the future, but we must be prepared to do. date: 1980-09 date_type: published publisher: Wiley id_number: doi:10.1057/jors.1980.90 creators_browse_id: 2452 full_text_status: none publication: Journal of the Operational Research Society volume: 31 number: 6 pagerange: 467-476 refereed: TRUE issn: 0160-5682 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Tomlinson, R. (1980). Doing Something about the Future. Journal of the Operational Research Society 31 (6) 467-476. 10.1057/jors.1980.90 .