Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations

This book combines systems theory with cybernetics to help managers evaluate and shape organizations. It enables them to diagnose the health of a company and discover is their organization is able to survive and thrive.

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.

Find out if your organization is prepared to survive Learn in a short time how to diagnose the health of your company Find out why your organization does not meet your expectations Why many firms and organizations are unable to survive the current systemic crisis Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Systems Thinking, Organisational Cybernetics and the Viable System Model.- Diagnosis and Design of Organisations.- Pathologies of Organisations.- Software for VSM application.- Team Syntegrity.