Creating a Viable System

Steps for first Recursion

1. System in Focus Name
2. Operation primary Activity
3. Outline Operation in Focus
4. Outline Metasystem criteria
5. Outline System in Focus

A total outline of all parts of a Viable System

Identity

• Ethos
• Atmosphere
• Norms
• Belief systems
• Values
• Who and what you are

Awareness

• Strategy
• Scenario Development
• Simulations
• Innovations
• Pre-adaptive
• Hypothesis driven

Optimisation

• tactics
• Internal
• Symbiosis
• Win-Win
• Synergy

Audit

• policy
• Procedures

Coordination

• scheduling
• Resource allocation

System in focus

• Rules
• Resources
• Rights
• Responsibilities

Operation in focus

• Primary Activity
• Function
• Transformation