Kybernetes: Volume 40 Issue 3/4

A new management for enduring company success

The purpose of this paper is to explain how the system science and cybernetics in Stafford Beer's viable system model (VSM) will help management structure and manage their company…

Structural design of a national youth and sports information system using the viable system model

Stafford Beer's viable system model (VSM) offers a powerful and alternative model for both economic and social organizations to structure themselves, especially for those…

Cybernetically sound organizational structures I: de Sitter's design theory

The purpose of this paper is to use de Sitter's design theory to show how organizational structures can be designed so as to attenuate organizational disturbances and amplify…

Cybernetically sound organizational structures II: Relating de Sitter's design theory to Beer's viable system model

The purpose of this paper is to show how the viable system model (VSM) and de Sitter's design theory can complement each other in the context of the diagnosis and design of viable…

Enactive management: application of CLEHES and VIPLAN

The purpose of this paper is to deal with the learning and adaptation of those particular human beings that manage modern companies. They are challenged not only by a very high…

Appreciating the complexity of organizational processes

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of a company in Argentina with the support of the viable system model (VSM) and the Viplan method. This company had had a…

An argument for active citizenship and organisational transparency

The purpose of this paper is to argue that active citizenship and organisational transparency are necessary to increase stakeholders' influence in policy processes. Active…

“Being seen as” and “seeing as”

The purpose of this paper is to provide a platform to improve leadership practices through variety engineering in terms of amplifying and attenuating variety.

Can a cybernetic lens contribute to the business strategy domain?

The purpose of this paper is to review the strategy literature in such a manner as to identify the key approaches and themes of current interest and thus provide a platform to…

Cognitive Centres: technology for designing the future: Methodology and implementation experience

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and conceptualize the topic of Cognitive Centres. It emphasizes the importance of complexity management and cognitive technologies in…

Complexity approaches to self‐organisation: a case study from an Irish eco‐village

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on results of recent research about the self‐organisation (SO) of communities that aim to regenerate and/or improve their sustainability…

Designing viable social systems: The role of linguistic communication for self‐organization

The viable system model (VSM) provides a way to understand communication structures in an organization. It gives us a means to visualize and analyze information channels relating…

Research and development: current impact and future potential

This paper aims to review current research with particular reference to new research and development initiatives.

Earthquake prediction, Wolfram Alpha, neuroimaging

The purpose of this paper is to review proposals for earthquake prediction and study using accelerometers incorporated in laptop computers. Also reviewed is a lecture by Stephen…

Applying triangular fuzzy number for multi‐sensor object recognition

Multi‐sensor data fusion (MSDF) is defined as the process of integrating information from multiple sources to produce the most specific and comprehensive unified data about an…

A remark on the arms race spiral

The purpose of this paper is to explain the tendency of escalation of a regular bilateral arms race, or the arms race spiral.

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice

Handbook of Natural Computing

Arithmetic Optimization techniques for Hardware and Software Design

Progress in organisational cybernetics

Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)ASC “Listening” Conference 2011

Public Lecture – Series 2010-2011“The brains behind business”

Working in a Crowd: Social Media Marketing for Business

Special announcements

Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature

Foreword

15th WOSC International Congress on Cybernetics and Systems

International Federation for Systems ResearchInternational Academy of Systems and Cybernetics Sciences

e-Democracy: A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective

Announcements

Managing Information Security