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

 

Research

1/12/2011

EMCSR 2012 Call for Participation / Call for Papers

We invite you to submit your extended abstract to the 21st European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Visit the website at http://www.emcsr.net; The meeting will take place at the Campus of the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria. from April 10 to April 13, 2012

Raul Espejo is resposnible for Symposium S: Design and Self-organization in the Emergence of Effective Organizations (read more)

Syncho Research

Syncho Limited's work over the past few years has focused on research and dissemination. We have now decided to operate as an international research group -Syncho Research.

ViPlan Method

...is a method to use the Viable System Model for organizational diagnosis and design. It helps structuring and managing complexity from the perspective of the organization's strategy and the required communications. Its emphasis is in exploring the identity and structure of organizations ... read more...)

Viplan Toolbox (read more...)

ViPlan (Cybernetic) Methodology

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

Requisite Variety

Information and Communications in society

 

(23/07/2011)

Dr. Germán Bula's review of book Organizational Systems by Espejo and Reyes

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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News

(1/12/2011)

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

The 15th WOSC International Congress on Cybernetics and Systems took place in Nanjing, China, from the 15th to the18 of September; organizational cybernetics was a major contribution to this event. Dr Alfonso Reyes was a keynote speaker and his presentation about organisational learning and the management of complexity is attached here.

WOSC's website is www.wosc.co

Latest Raul's Blog

The Viable System Model, Cybersyn and the 2008 Financial Crisis (14/04/2011)

Publications

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

(read more...)

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.

(read more...)

Past Events

Raul demonstrating the concept of a pod for use in cyberfilter

CyberSyn in Berlin 2008...

 

 

 

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Dissemination

Kybernetes Publication

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

 

 

Viable System Model (VSM)

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 always had a strong focus on research. At the heart of much of this research lies the viable system model. Raul Espejo collaborated with Stafford Beer since the early 1970's when they worked on a key project for the Chilean Government.Since then Raul has publish many books and papers.

Online Learning Centre

Syncho Research, under the direction of Raul Espejo, is now able to offer an indepth online program to those who wish to learn more about the viable system model (VSM) using the ViPlan Methodology and other tools developed by Raul. For anyone involved in leading and managing change as well as performance in all types of organizations, this course will significantly increase their ability to diagnose and resolve areas of concern. A separate members only website has been developed for this purpose. Read more...

Relevant Books and Papers by Raul Espejo

 

Download pdfs on the VSM, Management Cybernetics

 

Accessing the ViPlan Learning System.