Introduction Preface Section 0: Cybernetic Eyes Section 1: The Quick Guide to the VSM Section 2: Case Studies Hebden Water Milling 1985 Triangle Wholefoods 1986 One Mondragon Co-operative 1991 Section 3: Preliminary Diagnosis Janus interlude Section 4: Designing Autonomy Section 5: The Internal Balance Section 6: Information Systems Section 7: Balance with the Environment Section 8: Policy Systems Section 9: The Whole System Section 10: Application to Federations Bibliography Links Appendix 1: Levels of Recursion Appendix 2: Variety  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |
The Viable System Model
How to design a healthy business: The use of the 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
Based on The Viable Systems Model Pack, originally published as part of the SMSE Strategic Management in the Social Economy training programme
carried out by ICOM, CRU, CAG and Jon Walker with the financial assistance of Directorate General XXIII of the Commission of the European Communities.
The original version was completed October 1991. This 3rd revised version incorporates new material.
This HTML version was constructed by , who also prepared the diagrams and the bibliography.
Copyright © 1991 by ICOM, CRU, CAG and Jon Walker. Copyright © 1998, 2020 by Jon Walker.
Version 3.2 - Last modified 21st August 2020 to add a Creative Commons non-commercial licence since it has been brought to our attention that this copyrighted material has not only been cloned by others (which is not a problem) but also charged for on a commercial basis (which is completely unacceptable). A more completely revised version will be released in due course.
|
||||
