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title: Russ Ackoff, 1994
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creator: Silas Jelley
description: Improving a system requires knowing what you could do if you could do whatever you wanted to. Because if you don’t know what you would do if you could do whatever you wanted to, how on earth are you g
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creator: Russ Ackoff
year: 1994
event: An event to capture the legacy of Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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