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Topic: Viable System Model

	The Viable System Model: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		System one consists of the parts that actually carry out the tasks that the system is intended to accomplish; they constitute the implementation of the system's purpose.
		System five considers the organisation's purpose or identity and is thus responsible for the direction of the whole system.
		System five's second task is to monitor the balance between the long-term actions suggested by system four, and the short-term suggested by system three.
	bjorkqvist.nu /thesis/vsm.htm (2674 words)

	System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		System (from the Latin (systēma), and this from the Greek σύστημα (sustēma)) is an assemblage of elements comprising a whole with each element related to other elements.
		In the human body, such systems are referred to as the nervous system, the circulatory system, the digestive system, the reproductive system, and the respiratory system.
		Conceptual systems generally exist to aid in the accomplishment of specific goals or may be used to model physical systems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/System (1096 words)

	Viable System Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The VSM expresses a model for a viable system, which is an abstracted cybernetic description that is applicable to any organisation that is a viable system.
		System 5 is concerned with balancing the 'here and now' and the 'there and then' to give policy directives which maintain the organisation as a viable entity.
		System 5 is responsible for policy decisions within the organisation as a whole to balance demands from different parts of the organisation and steer the organisation as a whole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viable_System_Model (513 words)

	CoManTLE Research Framework (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The VSM is a model of the organisational structure of any viable system A viable system is any system which is organised in such a way as to meet the demands of surviving in changing environment.
		The VSM expresses a model for a viable system, which is an abstracted cybernetic description that is applicable to any organisation that is a viable system (Beer 1979).
		Viability is defined within the context of a higher level system, so it may sound odd to suggest that a university department could be a viable system, if we have not understood that viability is defined within the context of a univesity environment.
	toomol.bangor.ac.uk /CoManTLE/documents/researchframewk.html (3002 words)

	The Viable System Model: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Among them are: the model is accused of being a machine or organism metaphor; the concept of variety is an observer-independent objective measure; the model does not show a complete picture of an organisation; the model does not take into account the purposeful role of the actors in an organisation.
		System one consists of the parts that actually carry out the tasks that the system is intended to accomplish; they constitute the implementation of the system's purpose.
		System five's second task is to monitor the balance between the long-term actions suggested by system four, and the short-term suggested by system three.
	www.bjorkqvist.nu /thesis/vsm.htm (2674 words)

	BPT Lecture 4 - VSM
		A viable system is defined as a system which is able to survive in a particular sort of environment.
		A viable system needs some form of identity, partly to unite the parts and give a sense of direction, and partly, from the observers' point of view, so that we will know what we are studying, what it is that might be remaining viable.
		VSM also insists that each super- or sub-sytem, as we move through levels of recursion, should itself be a viable system.
	www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au /~jim/bpt/vsm.html (4636 words)

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		Viability is enhanced when the ground level operations have the maximum amount of autonomy consistent with their purposes because any intervention from above sacrifices some of the variety which the lower level can use.
		System Three for the networked organization is likely to be focused on contract negotiation and compliance and on the resource bargains between different projects and subgroups.
		System Four's human capital work includes sponsoring the learning and development required to keep up with events, planning for recruitment and succession to support strategic plans and making sure there is a social and physical environment conducive to making the necessary connections.
	www.tlainc.com /articl12.htm (6958 words)

	Viable System Model
		Using the VSM it is possible to define an underlying structure for communications in support of viability and to develop a template for both structural organizational design and the mapping of strategic IT architecture.
		The Introduction to the Viable Systems Model is a good starting point for a study of Managerial Cybernetics.
		The approach highlights that, for the innovation system, coordination is soft; through markets, through government, through relationships embodied in clusters, unions, or industry groups etc. In contrast to a system with a strong self-awareness and focus the NIS is diffuse with little top down structure.
	www.squidoo.com /vsm (2404 words)

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		VSM attempts to enable organisations, of any size and complexity, to improve the control mechanisms proposed to be essential for that organisation to be viable.
		A system is perceived as an organisation of operations, and a metasystem is represented by “higher levels of management that define purpose for a system” [Flood, Jackson, 1991, p231].
		Viable System ModelThe System S1: Operations, as represented by what the systems do and produceMetasystemic Cognitive Purpose Mission and goals The overall mission is to generate viability through correcting faults of form in an organisation under inquiry; the goals of VSM that satisfy this are to ensure that the organisation is adaptable and dynamically stable.
	www.staff.livjm.ac.uk /bsnmyoll/VSMM.doc (7354 words)

	Constituent (7): The End Result
		Developed by Stafford Beer, the VSM (the Viable System Model) reflects and is founded on the premise that what is working in the form of the nervous system of an individual human being already is working as integral whole, and control is spread through the form of this same system.
		By convention, Beer's Viable System Model Diagram and his VSM are termed "the VSM Diagram" and "the VSM".
		In any natural system, whether we speak of animal populations or the inner workings of some living organism, the control function is spread through the architecture of the system.
	www.bogacki.co.uk /C7TER.htm (2805 words)

	BPT Lecture 4 - VSM
		A viable system is defined as a system which is able to survive in a particular sort of environment.
		A viable system needs some form of identity, partly to unite the parts and give a sense of direction, and partly, from the observers' point of view, so that we will know what we are studying, what it is that might be remaining viable.
		Since the system is not merely interested in the environmental future out of curiousity, but needs to predict how the future environment and (our) viable system will interact, system 4 needs to include a model of the viable system at the current level of recursion.
	www-staff.socs.uts.edu.au /~jim/bpt/vsm.html (4636 words)

	VSM
		The Viable System Model was developed by Stafford Beer from his neuroanalytic T, U and V machines produced to construct a "Cybernetic Factory".
		Ashby's pioneering work on variety and homeostasis and Pask's work in electrochemical concept growth are important citations, for example.The Beer VSM paradigm is relevant as ever to developing Nano Technology Assemblers and Replicators, for example, because of its deep insights into Organisation in the face of almost inconceivable complexity.
		Systems 3-2-1 form an Autonomic Loop with Four and Five corresponding to cognitive and higher mental functions.
	www.nickgreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /vsm1.htm (513 words)

	Laws of System Completeness
		The VSM ‘co-ordination’ definition is most closely related to the concept of the TRIZ Transmission term used to denote the relationships between the Engine and Tool parts of the system.
		The Model is further complicated by attempts to use the model mechanistically; “it is above all a thinking framework which helps people to share a common language and model of their organisation to manage more effectively its complexity and aid debate and adjustment.
		Scope has no equivalent in the classical TRIZ Law of System Completeness, but it has very distinct parallels with the ‘Casing’ idea discussed in Reference 3, and, in terms of parallels with the Viable System Model, is directly analogous to the Co-ordination element of a viable system.
	www.triz-journal.com /archives/2001/05/d (3060 words)

	Viable System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Some systems survive and evolve and propagate despite turbulent and partly hostile environments - systems such as: "linguigions", families, companies, persons, flora, fauna, and artificial life forms.
		Current research in A-life and complexity theory, and memetics, are exhibiting other advantageous functional characteristics for systems and environments where survival symbiosis, and propagation are of interest.
		Also, finally, since it is concerned with control for viability of the whole organization, and we often care only about the viability of ourselves qua "skindividuals"; VSM can be easily misunderstood as totalitarian.
	artsci-ccwin.concordia.ca /edtech/ETEC606/viablesystem.html (464 words)

	The Viable System Model for Software - Herring, Kaplan (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Abstract: We are investigating the application of Beer's Viable System Model to the development of software for "complex" applications.
		We use this model as the basis for a component system architecture, the Viable System Architecture.
		A key construct of the architecture is the structure of a component and its special set of interfaces, a "viable component." After presenting the Viable System Model and the Viable System Architecture, we outline a design methodology for development of software components...
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /590454.html (392 words)

	Viable System Model
		Das Viable System Model ist durch seinen organismischen oder biologischen Charakter geprägt.
		Das System 1 steht dabei dafür, was in der Organisation getan wird und das System 2 dafür, wie koordiniert es geschieht.
		Systeme 4 beschäftigen sich damit, was in Zukunft geschehen könnte.
	www.kybernetik.ch /inh/methmod3.htm (2203 words)

	Amazon.com: Viable System Model: Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer's Vsm: Books: Raul Espejo,Roger ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In fact, The Viable System Model is published by John Wiley, the same publisher as publishes Beer's VSM trilogy, and all four books share the same binding and graphic design, making them look of a piece.
		The applications section will be especially useful for those wishing to understand how the VSM may be applied to a variety of organizational contexts (including a bee hive!).
		While most chapters deal with the VSM within its normal context of managerial cybernetics and its associated structuralist paradigm, the authors include a few chapters that attempt to situate it within the wider contexts of management science and postmodernist philosophy.
	www.amazon.com /Viable-System-Model-Interpretations-Applications/dp/0471922889 (984 words)

	An application of the decision-information-operation system model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On the other hand, the Decision-Information-Operation System model (DIOS- model) developed by Professor J.L. Le Moigne, is an alternative approach for a system’s adaptation that is not as widely known.
		The models that were developed based on the theory increased our understanding of the organisation under study.
		Therefore, the model is a tool for helping organisations adapt to changing conditions.
	epubl.luth.se /1402-1757/1999/32 (238 words)

	Perspectives on Demand-Side Energy Efficiency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the first part of the thesis, two case studies of local energy planning demonstrate the role of demand-side energy efficiency: energy systems engineering suggests a design in which energy efficiency improvements are aligned with the whole technical energy system.
		In this work, the cause of the difference between the recommended and observed investments is addressed by an investigation of the customer's transaction cost for the energy efficiency investment.
		The second part is an application of the viable system model and focuses on the role of energy efficiency activities at a public energy utility.
	www.bjorkqvist.nu /thesis (356 words)

	Automata and Games Theories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An automaton is a system which obtains, transforms, transmits and uses information to perform its functions without direct human participation.
		Game theory is not a prescriptive way of how to play a game but rather a set of ideas and techniques for analyzing conflict situations between two or more parties who determine the outcomes by their decisions.
		Game theory uses models of games which are formally equivalent to automata, hence the connection between automata and game theory.
	artsci-ccwin.concordia.ca /edtech/ETEC606/gametheory.html (229 words)

	Phrontis Limited - consultants in performance and process management, systems thinking, facilitation, training, ...
		This paper introduces the Viable System Model (VSM) created by Stafford Beer.
		The VSM provides an alternative approach to organization structure and relationships that explains how the organization works rather than who reports to who in the typical command and control hierarchical structure.
		For a software based learning tool to support the Viable System Model see ViPlan Learning System.
	www.phrontis.com /vsm.htm (244 words)

	Hierarchical & hetrarchical systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The size of a complex system which can be controlled by controllers of limited capability, can be greatly increased by introducing an hierarchical communi-control structure (the Roman army).
		The adaptability and creativity of a large system can be increased by employing hetrarchical communi-control structures (e.g.
		It is to be noted that the emergent levels of cybersystems which have evolved on Earth do not stand in any simple hierarchical relation to one another.
	artsci-ccwin.concordia.ca /edtech/ETEC606/hierarchy.html (191 words)

	viable - Webled.com
		The Viable Hiatus: Southern Illinois Photography by Matt Gholson
		[ viable Herbal solutions is a primary supplier of herbal health ]...
		[ viable Systems, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of CAD software ]...
	www.webled.com /viable.htm (381 words)

	LookSmart's Furl - Latest Headlines - cybernetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Viable System Model on Squidoo [by cybergospel at 19:46:16 GMT on Jun 11]
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		A Viable System Model: Consideration of Knowledge Management [by cybergospel (and 1 other) at 19:39:11 GMT on Jun 11]
	www.furl.net /furled.jsp?topic=cybernetics (970 words)

	BPT Lecture 4 - BPR
		The complete health of processes can only be assessed by detailed modelling, but processes with obvious problems are cndidates for reengineering.
		Since successful reengineering ultimately depends on the cooperation of those performing the process, it is better to deal with processes where the culture and politics are favourable.
		In his Reengineering Handbook Manganelli presents a detailed reengineering methodology which is similar to the usual system development methodologies.
	www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au /~jim/bpt/bpr.html (2372 words)

	Economic / Environmental System Interaction
		s viable system model (VSM) is used as a means of appraising the attribution of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation processes.
		This work is focused on identifying the relationship an economic system and its policies have with the environment.
		The common factor involved in the relationship analysis is that currently associated with entropy, being the underlying measure of any transformation process.
	ideas.repec.org /p/wpa/wuwpge/0306001.html (733 words)

	BPubs.com: Knowledge Management (KM) Articles
		A Viable System Model: Consideration of Knowledge Management - Contends that individual and organizational knowledge is difficult to value and therefore difficult to manage.
		How Knowledge Management Drives Competitive Advantage - This paper will attempt to "de-mystify" knowledge management and provide a straightforward framework for developing knowledge management solutions that drive competitive advantage.
		A Conceptual Framework for Modeling the Conflict Between Product Creation and Knowledge Development Amongst Production Workers - Theories of manufacturing usually model knowledge as flowing into (and defining) production, but rarely is knowledge modeled as flowing out.
	www.bpubs.com /Management_Science/Knowledge_Management (415 words)

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