VSM2 - Organisational diagnosis:
VSM2 can be taken together with VSM3, or separately. Together they provide learners with a working knowledge of the Viable System Model and the ability to use it for understanding, diagnosing and designing organisational systems covering:
- 2 approaches for diagnosing systems using VSM;
- Use of system archetypes;
- 3 approaches for system design using VSM.
If you don’t know how to design an organisation to deliver your strategy, or how structural change happens in organisations, how effective can you be in implementing your strategy? For senior managers and aspiring senior managers, the organisation is the principal tool at their disposal. So, understanding how organisations function as systems is a critically important skill. This courses will provide students with practical skills in using VSM to diagnose organisational issues.
Organisational diagnosis
- Learn two approaches to diagnose organisations with VSM
- Understand the power of archetypes to link surface symptoms to the underlying systemic structure which creates them
- Practice identifying archetypes in different organisations, and explore solutions to them
- Understand how VSM provides a way to pattern-match, linking from structure / system to symptom and vice versa
- Practice identifying strength / weakness / absence of VSM characteristics, and explore solutions to them
Trainer
These courses are delivered by Patrick Hoverstadt, author of ‘Fractal Organization’ ,which is a standard text on VSM.