Jose Perez Rios – VSM in action

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Perez-Rios J. (2024). A Framework for the Application of the Viable System Model and a Taxonomy of Organizational Pathologies.
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Organizational Pathologies

Organizational Pathologies (Taxonomy) Jose Perez Rios, 2008

Group I – Organizational Pathologies (Part I- Structural Pathologies) Jose Perez Rios 2008

Functional Pathologies (System 5)

Functional Pathologies (System 4)

Functional Pathologies (System 3*)

Functional Pathologies (System 3)

Functional Pathologies (System 2)

Functional Pathologies (System 1)

Group III Pathologies of Informations Systems and Communications channels
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The VSM allows navigation through the universe of organizations.
Its capacity to create multiple recursion levels with as many recursion criteria as desired and always using the same systemic structure makes it unique among management approaches.
We could consider it a tool to design multilevel organizations and to navigate through all of them.
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Example of application of the VSM to help the design of a complex entity.

Dynamic Complexity:
“When action A does not produce effect B … but Z. This simple causal diagram shows some of the variables involved in setting housing rental prices. It is intended solely to alert us to the complexity of the problem. As with any complex problem, the application of simple solutions (however drastic they may be) can produce the opposite effects to the one intended.