Posts Tagged "viable system model"

Requisite-variety and stormy weather

Just how much of a law is Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety? Our answers to that question – and likely there’ll be many of them – are fundamental to how we handle key architectural concepts or requirements such as management, control, certainty…

5 Enterprise Architecture Picks

Something for the weekend…   5 Enterprise Architecture picks for the weekend (much more interesting than the launch of the Sun on Sunday!). Title Abstract Notes Mapping the Enterprise Architecture Principles in TOGAF to the Cybernetic Concepts–An Exploratory Study Although principles are…

Buy the Book: The Fractal Organization

The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model [source: Amazon] I was having a very interesting discussion with Nigel Green @taotwit about a week or so back, one topic that came to the fore was the Viable System Model…

Enterprise Canvas as service-viability checklist

One of the more valuable uses of the Enterprise Canvas is as a checklist to verify completeness and viability of services, in any context within the enterprise. By ‘completeness’ I mean that we check that the service has all the connections and…

Upward and sideways from business-model (short version)

As all-too-usual, the previous ‘how-to’ post ‘Upwards sideways from business-model‘ – to complement the earlier post on transforming from Business Model Canvas to Archimate, to plan and verify the implementation – has turned out to be huge, because it included all of…

Upwards and sideways from business-model

The past few posts in this series have focussed on moving ‘downward’ from the business-model, towards implementation, such as might be modelled in Archimate notation. That’s an aspect of the business-architecture / enterprise-architecture interface that makes immediate and practical sense to most…