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Javier Livas introduces the Viable System Model in simple language. Many more videos on his youtube channel. The VSM is a very helpful theory for diagnosing and designing organisations.

June 30, 2013 by Stefan Norrvall
Posted in Business Transformation, Cybernetics, Systems Thinking Tagged cybernetics Leave a reply

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