DESIGNED FOR WHAT WORLD?

Making Sense of Frozen Inheritance

Making Sense of "Viable Systems Model"

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Today lets loop back slightly to reflect on the duration of models in a VUCA changing world. With Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) recognized as the most significant method shift in play in that tribe since the 1980s, we did notice, by navigating the systems evolution time-line, that many of its most beloved, famous and still highly referenced frameworks such as Stafford Beer’s 1972 Viable Systems Model were created during the Hard Systems era and often have not been effectively revisited within that tribe since the 1982-83 Hard/Soft Earthquake. We might reflect on what that means.

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