Viable System Model

January 2009

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  Cwarel Isaf Institute

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  “The Cwarel Isaf Institute was founded to make the life's work of Stafford Beer available to society.
  Stafford
  Beer's thinking and the avenues he opened to solutions are of
  fundamental importance to management in complex systems. For the
  benefit of organizations now and in the future, the aim is for his work
  to be put into a form in which it is understandable and geared to
  practical application, and for it to be passed on both to those
  actually engaged in management and those who are studying it.

  Anthony Stafford Beer; Management cybernetics; Viable System Model. [1 person]
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  The Viable Systems Model, or VSM is a model of the organisational structure of any viable or autonomous system. A viable system is any system organised in such a way as to meet the demands of surviving in the changing environment. One of the prime features of systems that survive is that they are adaptable. 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 and capable of autonomy. It embodies the risk constraints on Development.

  Anthony Stafford Beer; Cybernetics; Organization; Viable System Model. [1 person]