Organizational Systems

Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model

By: Raul Espejo, Alfonso Reyes

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Hardcover | 2 April 2011

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Organizational Systems clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the problems we experience today are routed in our practice of fragmenting that needs to be connected as a whole. It offers a method to study and design organizations and a methodology to deal with implementation problems. It is the outcome of many years of working experience with government offices as well as with all kinds of public and private enterprises. At a more detailed level this book offers an in depth discussion of variety engineering that is not available either in the primary or secondary literature.

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Concepts and the Viable System Model
On Systems	p. 3
References	p. 17
On Control and Communication: Self-regulation and Coordination of Actions	p. 21
References	p. 31
On Complexity: How to Measure It?	p. 33
References	p. 47
On Managing Complexity: Variety Engineering	p. 49
References	p. 73
On Organizations: Beyond Institutions and Hierarchies	p. 75
References	p. 88
The Viable System Model: Effective Strategies to Manage Complexity	p. 91
References	p. 111
Viplan Method
Naming Systems: Tool to Study Organizational Identity	p. 115
References	p. 132
Unfolding of Complexity: Modelling the Transformation's Complexity	p. 135
References	p. 163
Distributing Discretion and Designing Structural Mechanisms	p. 165
References	p. 186
Business, Organizational and Information Processes	p. 187
References	p. 209
Methodology and Systemic Thinking
On Methodology: Context and Content	p. 213
References	p. 232
Identity and Structural Archetypes	p. 233
References	p. 255
Index	p. 257
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