Raymond Turner Knihy

Emphasizing design as a crucial element for commercial success and societal improvement, this book offers insights from Raymond Turner on leveraging design for competitive advantage. It presents a practical approach aimed at managers and executives who shape organizational effectiveness, making it particularly relevant for those in design management roles and students aspiring to enter the field. The text underscores the importance of effective design leadership in enhancing business performance, government efficiency, and overall societal enjoyment.

Computational models can be found everywhere in present day science and engineering. In providing a logical framework and foundation for the specification and design of specification languages, Raymond Turner uses this framework to introduce and study computable models. In doing so he presents the first systematic attempt to provide computational models with a logical foundation. Computable models have wide-ranging applications from programming language semantics and specification languages, through to knowledge representation languages and formalism for natural language semantics. They are also implicit in computer modelling in many areas of physical and social science. This detailed investigation into the logical foundations of specification and specification languages and their application to the definition of programming languages, coupled with a clear exposition of theories of data and computable models as mathematical notions will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students.

The philosophy of computer science is concerned with issues that arise from reflection upon the nature and practice of the discipline of computer science. This book presents an approach to the subject that is centered upon the notion of computational artefact . It provides an analysis of the things of computer science as technical artefacts. Seeing them in this way enables the application of the analytical tools and concepts from the philosophy of technology to the technical artefacts of computer science. With this conceptual framework the author examines some of the central philosophical concerns of computer science including the foundations of semantics, the logical role of specification, the nature of correctness, computational ontology and abstraction, formal methods, computational epistemology and explanation, the methodology of computer science, and the nature of computation. The book will be of value to philosophers and computer scientists.

Foreword • Peter GorbIntroduction • Peter GorbVIEWPOINTSUsing Design Effectivesly • James PilditchWhy Design is Difficult to Manage • Angela Dumas, Allan WhitfieldIndustry and Design • Ivor OwenThe Social Psychology of Design • Lord GowrieDesign, Commerce and Culture • Stephen BayleyCASESDesign, Product Planning & Prosperity • Sir Terence BeckettManaging Design at British Rail • Jane PriestmanDesign into Management • Raymond Turner Designs on your Feet • John ClothierDesign and Strategic Change • Geoffrey MaddrellDesign Management at Richards • Derek LovelockImplementing Corporate Strategy • Sir Brian CorbyDesign for Profit • Sir Ralph Halpern