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The Enterprise Complexity Model

February 24, 2021

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The Enterprise Complexity ModelAn Extension of the Viable System Model for Emerging Organisational Forms

Prof. Raul Espejo

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04.09.2024

The Topologies of Prediction: Management, Cybernetics, and Artificial Intelligence


Mark Johnson

AI’s recent advances mean that it is now a fundamental constituent of the environment for all of us, and the challenge for organisations is to adapt to it. This entails a deeper understanding of what the technology is, and this in turn invites a reinspection of cybernetic theory.


VSM and RenDanHeYi

26.06.2024

From systems to entrepreneurial ecosystemic organizations. Exploring Haier’s RenDanHeYi.


Emanuele Quintarelli, Krishan Mathis

How can a global manufacturer with tens of thousands of employees not just survive but thrive in turbulent times? Guided by its CEO philosopher, the Chinese white goods appliance leader went through four decades of strategy, business, and organizational reinvention, rewriting everything we knew about management. Based on years of direct collaboration with Haier, Emanuele will conversate with Krishan to explore RenDanHeYi’s ability to get rid of hierarchical control, top-down people management, centralized budgeting, organizational bureaucracy, distance from the market. They will compare the foundational RenDanHeYi’s concepts with VSM pillars to show how more and more enterprises worldwide may embrace unprecedented levels of self-management, entrepreneurial initiative, customer centricity, diffused value sharing, and ecosystemic thinking.


Fourth industrial revolution ...

05.06.2024

The heart of the 4th industrial revolution in the brain of Viable System Model.


Rodrigo Fernández Albornoz

Many of Beer and his team’s reflections on the effective incorporation of people into the project considered prototypes for measuring audiences in real time. This view of the common good is especially critical in the main political and sociocultural dilemmas that form part of todays debates regarding the future of ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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