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The Viable System Model (VSM) and Team Syntegrity (TS) support more effective and agile organisations, by unlocking the emancipatory potential of its members.
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Webinars, Conferences, Special Interest Groups
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Recent Webinars
04.12.2024
Diagnosing Complex Organisations with Diverse Cultures — Configuring Mindset Agency Theory, with an application to ASEAN
Dr Tuomo Rautakivi and Prof. Dr. Maurice Yolles
Complex organisations require coherence to achieve adaptive goals through agency. This presentation introduces Mindset Agency Theory (MAT), a metatheoretical framework designed for modelling and diagnosing agency within culturally diverse populations. MAT, a cybernetic multi-ontology framework, delineates five formative traits defining agency character.
06.11.2024
The Great Transformation
Prof Fredmund Malik
The economy and society are going through one of the greatest transformations in history. It is a paradigmatic mega-change which brings about most risky turbulences. It is no less than a shift from an old to a new world. To master it, a revolutionary new management is needed in order to shift resources in the critical decision zone. For this challenge we have the best solutions ever, amplifying the effectiveness of management by 80fold and speed of change by 100fold.
08.10.2024
Organizing success critical tasks in a production plant with the Viable System Model
Judith Hennemann
A Practice Application of VSM …