Viable System Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

January 2009

• Jan 24
  Bricoleur

  

  Viable System Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Viable System Model
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Jump to: navigation, search

  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. [2 people]