The Viable System Model is a powerful tool for diagnosing, designing, and managing organizations in complex environments. Its applications improve organizational adaptability, resilience, and overall functionality across a wide range of contexts.
There is a lot of practical experience in organizations of every type. There is also solid academic evidence of the impact of the VSM.
The Canvas consists of several parts. You can find an example for a workshop here. A full description can be
Workshop preparation One usage option is a workshop of, let’s day 6 hours. What you need for a Workshop Material
Usage options of OD OD stands normally for Organization Design. The acronym OD can however be interpreted freely in several
Choose your transformation pattern The final part of the Canvas journey is the implementation of improvement which you identified in
The final part of the Canvas journey is the implementation of improvement which you identified in the previous steps.
The way that policy is made and implemented is without doubt the most important issue for an enterprise. The business must pay its bills and make a profit, but all of the financial issues are constraints: what the company is really about is defined partly by its mission statement, and partly by the working environment it creates for its members.
In the “Observe” step, we focused on understanding existing structures, and did not emphasize on evaluation. We continue now with
Which Problems do we solve How do we make decisions and which decisions are made where is treated more as
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A Manual for Managers of Co-Operations The VSM Guide is a manual for managers of co-operations, written by Jon Walker.
