The Viable Systems Model Guide 3e. Overview Organisations are complicated.
Any system which is concerned with understanding systems must provide a means of looking at this complexity in manageable chunks. The extraordinary power of the VSM to do this comes from its basic conceptualisation as a series of nested systems. Viable model for production. Viable model for production with an example. A Viable System Model: Consideration of Knowledge Management Allenna Leonard, PhD, The Complementary Set Contends that individual and organizational knowledge is difficult to value and therefore difficult to manage.
Looks at the management of knowledge from the perspective of the individual, the network and the organization using Stafford Beer's Viable System Model, a powerful descriptive and diagnostic tool to map management capacities and promote viability.