Entities
11 items under this folder.
Beyond Dispute
1994 Beyond Dispute — the manuscript's BD, Beer's account of Team Syntegrity as a non-hierarchical protocol beside the VSM.
Brain of the Firm
1981 second edition of Brain of the Firm — the manuscript's BOTF, source of the VSM's neurophysiological derivation.
Decision and Control
1966 Decision and Control — the manuscript's DC; OR method, homomorphism, and a 1960s neurophysiological precursor of the VSM.
Diagnosing the System for Organizations
1985 Diagnosing the System for Organizations — the manuscript's DTS, Beer's workbook for designing and diagnosing a VSM.
Management Science (1967)
1967 Management Science — the manuscript's MS; models, control and the viable governor, with no five-system VSM.
Platform for Change
1975 Platform for Change — the manuscript's PFC, the grouped-line, colour-coded statement of Beer's social cybernetics and its eight Theses.
Stafford Beer
Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) — cybernetician of the Viable System Model; corpus abbreviations used in Pure VSM; Cybernetic Futures is a centenary reappraisal of his work.
The Heart of Enterprise
1979 Heart of Enterprise — the manuscript's HOE, restating the VSM from variety and collecting its authorised rules.
Think Before You Think
2009 Think Before You Think — the manuscript's TBYT, Whittaker's collection of Beer's essays on knowing, identity, and chronology.
Viable System Model
Hub for Beer's Viable System Model as stated in Pure VSM Draft 0.8 — five subsystems, recursion, cohesion, algedonics; the draft is not canon.