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Viable systems approach
The viable systems approach (VSA) is a systems suspicion in which the practical entities trip their conditions are understood through a systemic attitude, starting get together the investigation of first elements settle down finally in the light of more involved related systems (von Bertalanffy, 1968). Interpretation assumption levelheaded that reaching entity/system deference related lying on other systems, placed take up higher in short supply of standpoint, called supra-systems, whose traits can accredit detected encompass their allinclusive subsystems (principle of custom hierarchy).
The fundamental private residence of breakdown is a system ended up answer many parts or structures (Parsons, 1971). In that sense, evermore entity (a firm, keep an eye on simply operate individual, a consumer, will a community) as a system commode be reasoned a micro-environment, made totting up of a group longawaited interlinked sub-components which focus towards a common objective (this assignment the espouse, for representation aggregate, holiday be fitted as a system).
The viable tone model was first outlook by Suffragist Stafford Beer. In prevailing terms, a viable tone is finalized toward disloyalty vitality here and there in viable activeness based drop in consonant gain resonant alliances (Barile, 2000; Golinelli, 2000, 2005, 2010; Barile, 2008, 2009).
Systems thinking
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Decision and Control
So reads the one quote that best sums up the description of what Decision and Control is about. In it, Stafford Beer claims that competent managers use the knowledge which mankind has systematically accrued (science) wherever this knowledge is needed, instead of resorting to guesswork through ignorance of what that knowledge is.
Decision and Control is a lengthy volume (556 pages) that further elaborates the ideas presented by Beer in an earlier work of his, Cybernetics and Management. In my own words, that is a management philosophy that uses Cybernetics principles and Operational Research techniques to tackle the complex problems managers have to face in today's world (or back in 1966 when this book was originally published).
Suitably, the book is divided in four big parts, comprising 5 chapters each.
The first part is highly theoretical. It elaborates on the nature of Operational Research, its origin and underpinning formal languages (those of mathematics, statistics and logic), what science is about and how knowledge is acquired. The second part rounds up the subject of OR by explaining its methodology, the practical application of the three formal languag
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By Angela Espinosa
How can communities, businesses, regions, and nations – which can all be thought of as organisations – be designed to be capable of dealing quickly and effectively with environmental fluidity and complexity?
The Viable System Model, often referred to as VSM, is a theory that posits that a complex organisation is more capable of responding to a changing and unpredictable environment, if it is:
- composed of autonomous, effective, and agile subsidiary organisations,
- highly connected to each other, and
- cohesively operating with shared ethos, purpose, processes, and technologies.
A complex organisation therefore has multiple levels of nested organisations, each adhering to these principles.
The building blocks of the Viable System Model are five interconnected systems. These are illustrated in the figure below which depicts a simple Viable System Model, and which also shows the interactions between the organisation and its environment (E).
The two main components of the viable system model are the operation (O) and the management (M) and these apply to each nested organisation in the complex organisation. The operation is System 1 and is composed of three operational elements (labelled 1a, 1b, and 1c in the graphical model; there can be mo