Intellect

Maurice Yolles is an emeritus professor in Management Systems at Liverpool John Moores University. His doctorate, completed about three decades ago, was in mathematical social theory, in particular the formal dynamics of peace and conflict. Since then he has published three research books in the field of management systems/cybernetics, and well over 200 academic papers some of which he has received awards for. He was research director for the International Society for Systems Science for a number of years, and he now heads the Centre for the Creation of Coherent Change and Knowledge, which runs courses and does research into transformational change. Within this context he has also been involved in a number of international research and development projects for the European Union and in Asia. He is the editor of Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change.