Diagram of the Vaible System Model used for analysing and designing organization structures

 

Publications

BOOK

Espejo, R. & A. Reyes (2011). Organizational Systems: Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model, Springer.

 

Papers

Alfonso Reyes, (2012) "Organizational learning and the effective management of complexity", Kybernetes, Vol. 41 Iss: 3/4, pp.318 - 326

R. Espejo (2012) "Seeing organisations: epistemological considerations". Kybernetes, Vol. 41 Iss: 3/4, pp.327 – 338.

G. Bula and Espejo, R (2012). "Governance and inclusive democracy". Kybernetes, Vol. 41 Iss: 3/4, pp.339 – 347.

Espejo, R. (2011). "Seeing a case study through a cybernetic epistemological lens." Kybernetes 40(9/10): 1273 - 1296 read more...

Espejo, R. and D. Kuropatwa (2011). "Appreciating the complexity of organizational processes". in Kybernetes 40 Number 3/4, pp 454-476

Espejo, R. and Z. Mendiwelso Bendek (2011). "An argument for active citizenship and organizational transparency" in Kybernetes 40 Number 3/4, pp 477-493

Espejo, R. (2009). “Performance management, the nature of regulation and the CyberSyn Project” in Kybernetes Vol 38, Number 1/2 pp 65-82

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Espejo, R. (2008)
‘Observing organisations: the use of identity and structural archetypes’,
Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, pp.6–24.

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Reyes, A. (2008)
‘A practical tool to recognise individual and organisational learning obstacles’,
Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, pp.82–94.

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Requisite Variety

Information and Communications in society

 

 

 

 

News

The Business Systems Laboratory (www.bslaboratory.net)  and SESGE (Sociedad Española de Sistemas Generales) – Universitat de Valencia held  the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM The Economic Crisis: Time for a Paradigm Shift – Towards a Systems Approach at the University of Valencia  on the 24-25 January, 2013. Keynote speakers were Professor Raul Espejo, Director General of the World Organization for Systems and Cybernetics (UK), MATJAŽ MULEJ Distinguished Professor at Maribor University and Professor Gaetano Golinelli, from the Sapienza University, Roma, Italy 

The 21st European Meeting on         Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) took place in Vienna from April 10 to April 13, 2012. Raul Espejo was responsible for the Symposium “Design and Self-organization in the Emergence of Effective Organizations”. For details see www.wosc.co

From September 2011 Raul Espejo is the Director-General of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics read more...

WOSC's website is www.wosc.co

 

The journal Kybernetes has published a special issue about Organizational Cybernetics, edited by Raul Espejo: Vol 40, Number 3/4 (read more)

Latest Raul's Blog

The Viable System Model and Structural Recursion (17/09/2012)

(23/07/2011)

Reviews of Organizational Systems by Espejo and Reyes:

Dr. Germán Bula's review:

Below you can read the presentation of German Bula, Minister of Education of Colombia between the years 1998 and 2000,  of the book “Organizational Systems: Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model” by Raul Espejo and Alfonso Reyes (Heidelberg, Springer 2011), in the city of Ibague, Colombia, the 5th of July 2011.

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Book Review

by Gandolfo Dominici, Univ. of Palermo, Italy & J. Rodolfo Hernández, Univ. Valencia, Spain

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Past Events

Raul demonstrating the concept of a pod for use in cyberfilter

CyberSyn in Berlin 2008...

 

 

 

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Viable System Model

was developed by Stafford Beer as a way to understand how complexity is managed in viable organizations. (read more on relevance and use of the VSM...)

Since its inception, Syncho has had a strong focus on research. At the heart of much of this research lies the Viable System Mode (VSM)l. Raul Espejo started his collaboration with Stafford Beer in the Project Cybersyn for the Chilean Government in the early 1970's. Since then Raul has publish many books and papers influenced by the VSM.

ViPlan Method

...is a method developed by Raul to use the Viable System Model in organizational diagnosis and design. It helps structuring the strategies used by organisations to manage their complexity in challenging environments. Its emphasis is in exploring and organisation's identity and structure ... read more...

Viplan Toolbox (read more...)

ViPlan Methodology

developed by Raul to facilitate applying systemic thinking to organisational problem situations using the VSM and soft systems thinking. (read more ...)

Viplan Online Learning Centre

 

Syncho Research offers a free online program to those who wish to learn more about the Viable System Model (VSM), the Viplan Method and the Viplan Methodology. This programme increases users' abilities to deal with unstructured problems and diagnose and design organisations. It is in a separate website developed only for this purpose. Read more...

 

Books and Papers by Raul Espejo

 

Download pdfs on the VSM, Management Cybernetics

 

Accessing the ViPlan Learning System.