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Limitations with Viable Systems Modeling

by philipjboxer on April 21, 2023February 10, 2025

Autopoiesis (Maturana and Varela 1980[1972]) is central to Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Modeling (VSM). VSM asserts that an enterprise has and retains its identity – it is in the business of preserving its own organization.[1]…

The dialectics implied by the Q-sectors

by philipjboxer on April 7, 2023February 27, 2025

Distinguishing the Q-sectors The need for dynamic alignment and synchronization – the capabilities associated with the top-Λ of the double-V cycle – arise as a consequence of the competitive pressures created by accelerating demand tempos….

The contribution of the Q-sectors to GDP

by philipjboxer on April 7, 2023November 16, 2023

We have seen how the competitive pressures created by accelerating demand tempos lead organizations to develop the requisite agility needed to work with the top-Λ of the double-V cycle – to develop the capabilities for…

Accelerating demand tempos and the double-V cycle

by philipjboxer on April 7, 2023April 7, 2023

by Philip Boxer As demand tempo exceeds integration tempo, ‘design-time’ and ‘run-time’ become entangled[1], requiring a different approach to governance that needs to be East-West (horizontally) dominant[2]. It follows that the double-V cycle[3] becomes increasingly…

Digitalization of the economy presents leadership with a third dilemma

by philipjboxer on March 19, 2023November 16, 2023

by Philip Boxer To take advantage of the effects of digitalization, an enterprise needs to move from a two-dimensional to a four-dimensional approach to governance – from a two-dimensional ‘as above, so below’ approach to…

Sustaining Requisite Ecosystemic Agility in the face of accelerating demand tempos

by philipjboxer on January 25, 2023April 21, 2023

by Philip Boxer How does an enterprise create and capture value when the demand tempo, the tempo at which the experiences of its clients need to change, is faster than the tempo at which it…

Why three kinds of symmetry-breaking?

by philipjboxer on January 13, 2023January 25, 2023

by Philip Boxer Why three kinds of symmetry-breaking? Because each symmetry is based on a different kind of basis for agreement: ‘how to do things’, ‘who to be’ and ‘what to want’. The need for…

Relational Architecture

by philipjboxer on January 13, 2023January 25, 2023

by Philip Boxer How does an enterprise create and capture value when the demand tempo – the tempo at which its client’s experience needs to change – is faster than the tempo at which the…

The relationship of Conceptual or Structural modeling to other types of modeling approach

by philipjboxer on November 17, 2022January 25, 2023

by Philip Boxer Ecosystems contain large numbers of operationally and managerially independent organizations interacting with each other in supplying and purchasing roles.  These ecosystems present challenges summarized as follows: These challenges limit the kind of…

Evaluating Architectures

by philipjboxer on November 17, 2022January 25, 2023

by Philip Boxer Architectural evaluation usually focuses on the supplier’s domain from which a product or service is to be provided in response to some customer’s direct demand.  The supplier approaches architecture from the starting…

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