originally put in place for a predecessor weblog (http://cep.weblogger.com) this page was still under construction at the time that this website was started… it may be updated sometime…. the links marked “#” point to the articles on the weblogger site:
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American Society for Cybernetics
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History and Development of Cybernetics (slides)
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Ashby, W. Ross book
Autopoiesis
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BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
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Bateson, Gregory
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Another Squidoo lens …. This one dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his VSM. It is especially interested in the application of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control. – goto
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Anyone familiar with the work of Stafford Beer in the area of Viable Systems (VSM) will want to see the practical application of the model and the role that managerial cybernetics can play in coping with environmental complexity.
By Raul Espejo, Werner Schuuhmann, Markus Schwaninger & Ulbaldo Bilello (Wiley 1996) this book is both theoretical and practical… a rare feat that is carried off extremely well by these authors .
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Organizational Transformation and Learning: A Cybernetic Approach to Management
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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.
Over the past twenty years its methods have evolved in the context of the work of Syncho Ltd.,
a small research and consultancy company associated to the Aston
Science Park, Birmingham, UK. The work has been driven by their desire
“to understand why institutions, whether large or small, public or
private, are as they are and how we can intervene to make them work
better for their stakeholders.”
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Viable Systems Model: A briefing about Organizational Structure
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Intended Audience:
Intelligent laymen interested in “How things really work” and how they could work better ….
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Why do our organizations have so much trouble meeting their objectives?
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Why are they in constant crisis?
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Why doesn’t reorganization improve things?
Most of us know very little about how the organizations which influence our lives actually function. This is because we lack any but the most rudimentary concepts for thinking about them.
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An overview of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model
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How to design a healthy business:
The
use of the Viable Systems Model in the diagnosis and design of
organisational structures in co-operatives and other social economy
enterprises.
A manual for the diagnosis and design of
organisational structures to enable social economy enterprises to
function with increased efficiency without compromising democratic
principles
– goto
Posted by David Soul on 12/26/04; 9:06:52 PM
in the Cybernetics section.
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Dr. Whitaker's ACM siggroup pages
on 'Self-organization' (which is a popular theme in current studies of
human social activity, enterprises, and IT) introduce one
well-developed theory of self-organization (autopoietic theory) and
discusses its application to enterprises and their management. The goto
link takes you to Section II of work (it assumes a familiarity with
the basic concepts and terminology of autopoietic theory ….if you do
not currently possess such understanding, best to proceed step-by-step
through Section I: “Overview of Autopoietic Theory”
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Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems: Theory and Practice
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Squidoo : Lenses : Viable System Model
This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his VSM.
It is especially interested in the applicaton of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control.
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The following quick introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model is based upon Jon Walker’s The Viable Systems Model, a guide for co-operatives and federations
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This page provides links to societies, institutes, organisations and journals of interest to the membership of The Cybernetics Society More links can be found in the Web Library, which is one of the features of the “Services for Members” branch of this si
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o avoid any reference to the links between information theory and linguistics, the cautious editor even removed the entire third section of Shannon’s paper, the one dealing with the statistical analysis of natural language. The editor drew a sharp line
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This article explores the role of cybernetics as a paradigm for shaping our thinking on a set of explicit principles to guide our understanding and shape our course of action in designing these intelligent rooms. The article extends Pask’s cybernetic de
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