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INTRODUCTION TO THE VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL
THE VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL A BRIEFING ABOUT ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE1 Raul Espejo SYNCHO Limited Website: 2003 1 This document may not be reproduced or copied without the written consent of its author. Table of Content Table of Content 2 1. WHY DO WE NEED A VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL ? 3 2. SOME DEFINITIONS 4 3. VIABLE SYSTEMS AND REQUISITE VARIETY 6 4. UNFOLDING COMPLEXITY 11 5. MECHANISMS FOR VIABILITY 18 Cohesion Mechanism 18 Adaptation Mechanism 26 6 APPLICATIONS OF THE VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL 32 Readings 35 1. WHY DO WE NEED A VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL ? The VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL (VSM) offers a holistic form of observing collective behaviours in today s societies. Its history goes back into the late 1950s. Stafford Beer created it in the context of the earlier work in cybernetics by Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch and Ross Ashby.
The idea of a viable system can be applied to any collective or group of people who are in recurrent interactions and over time develop an identity of their own (e.g. members of an enterprise, family,
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