Developing new systems theories has proved fruitful. Examples developed at
the University of Maribor include the following: (A) Control Systems that provide
information to managers of public sector organizations about how to render
management style more requisitely holistic and more successful; (B) Dialectical
Network Thinking that provides similar information to organizations based on
networking, such as railways; (C) Business Cybernetics that provides similar
information to managers of any organization, as a business system; (D) Universal DST
that builds a bridge between social and natural sciences to help civilization assure its
own sustainable development and future viability. (E) Fourth order Cybernetics can
help human beings attain the requisite holism of the human approach and the requisite
wholeness of outcomes of human action. (F) Requisitely holistic inventive/innovative
project management can help managers mastering strategic changes and crises in
business systems. (G) Quantified DST attempts to fortify requisitely holistic thinking
with quantitative and qualitative methods supportive of decision making on a requisitely
holistic basis; it enables consideration of all dimensions of sustainable performance:
economic, environmental, ethical and social. Its prescriptive models enable sensible use
of intuition and experience in crisis, including affluence situations.
Keywords: Business cybernetics, business systems, controlling systems theory,
creative problem solving, crisis, dialectical network thinking, dialectical systems
theory, fourth order cybernetics, holism, innovation, iso 26000, management,
quantified dialectical systems theory, qualitative methods, quantitative methods,
requisite holism, requisitely holistic inventive-innovative project management, social responsibility, universal dialectical systems theory, wholeness.
