In “The Heart of Enterprise,” one of the classics in the field of management cybernetics, Stafford Beer includes a select bibiography for the Viable System while explaining that a supportive reading list, in a form for which a consensus of cyberneticans could be found, just wasn’t possible. With this said he went on to construct what looks like a map, but is truly meant as model of a reading list (although as he freely admits, the map remains more artistic in nature than conforming to a scientific statement).
Tags: cybernetics, systems thinking, VSM
These are my links for November 13th from 22:43 to 23:00:
- Personal VSM – If one wishes to change the world, one must first change oneself. This was one of Heinz von Foerster’s profound teachings and one that has great applicability today as it seems that many aspects of our lives threaten to spiral out of control. Here in Ontario, which is one of the more tranquil areas on earth, we have had continuing security fall-out from the World Trade Center attack, the Walkerton water system’s e-coli contamination, SARS, a computer leasing scandal in city government and the electricity black-out in August. All appeared to be catastrophes or anomalies but, upon examination, all have been found to be events that we could have, and should have, been better prepared to meet. All the subsequent examinations exposed failures to see the whole picture and to respond with requisite variety when the first sign of trouble appeared.
Tags: change, control, experience, ignorance, predictions, teaching, thinking, VSM
Entymology:
Online Etymology Dictionary
Definitions:
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consciousness cybernetics
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ignorance insight intelligence inference intuition
m
maxims memory metaphor matching model
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patterns pattern matching posiwid predictions presentations problem solving
s
self-awareness skills software synthesis systems systems thinking
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This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM).It is especially concerned with the applicaton of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control. ![Print this article]()
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Anticipatory Viable Systems
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tafford Beer publishes Cybernetics and Management, considered the seminal work in management cybernetics. (1959)
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This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM).
It is especially concerned with the applicaton of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control.
Tags: VSM
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The centrifugal governor was yet used in windmills (please see the photo), in former times (prior to Watt’s age). The use of this ingenious device was the adjustement of the distance between the bedstone and the runner stone, this distance changes as chan
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