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The Viable Systems Model Guide 3e

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The Viable Systems Model Guide 3e
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How to design a healthy business: The use of the cybernetic Viable System 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 and function with increased efficiency without compromising democratic principles.

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http://www.esrad.org.uk/resources/vsmg_3/screen.php?page=home

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    • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
      12 months ago


      "The most remarkable story involves the application of the VSM in Chile in 1971. Beer was invited by President Salvador Allende to study the entire social economy and to make changes to the existing systems of organisation. In the 18 months before Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup, Stafford Beer managed to organise something like 75% of the Chilean economy into a single integrated information system, and to demonstrate remarkable increases in efficiency.

      The work in Chile remains an extra-ordinary experiment and a source of inspiration to those of us who don't think that since the collapse of the Eastern European centralist systems referred to as Communism, that the Free Market is the only alternative.

      All of these accounts and subsequent meetings with other consultants who use the VSM led me to believe that the VSM had the necessary credibility to warrant a thorough study.

      Five years later, I am in no doubt about the usefulness of the model. The theory is difficult in places and the overall conception seems strange when you begin, but the emerging understanding of the mechanics of viability in an enterprise seems to give the VSM an unprecedented power to find out how things actually function and to pin-point areas which need attention."
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    • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
      12 months ago


      quoted

      "The most remarkable story involves the application of the VSM in Chile in 1971. Beer was invited by President Salvador Allende to study the entire social economy and to make changes to the existing systems of organisation. In the 18 months before Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup, Stafford Beer managed to organise something like 75% of the Chilean economy into a single integrated information system, and to demonstrate remarkable increases in efficiency."

    • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
      12 months ago


      quoted

      "The most remarkable story involves the application of the VSM in Chile in 1971. Beer was invited by President Salvador Allende to study the entire social economy and to make changes to the existing systems of organisation. In the 18 months before Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup, Stafford Beer managed to organise something like 75% of the Chilean economy into a single integrated information system, and to demonstrate remarkable increases in efficiency."
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    • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
      12 months ago


      quoted

      "The most remarkable story involves the application of the VSM in Chile in 1971. Beer was invited by President Salvador Allende to study the entire social economy and to make changes to the existing systems of organisation. In the 18 months before Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup, Stafford Beer managed to organise something like 75% of the Chilean economy into a single integrated information system, and to demonstrate remarkable increases in efficiency."
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