Name: Workshop: A Blueprint for a ‘state of the art’ (VSM) Environment for Decision Making
Start: 2025-07-03T15:30:00+0100
End: 2025-07-03T17:00:00+0100

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Thursday July 3, 2025 15:30 - 17:00 BST

MBS Room 1

In this presentation we will summarise the current research project of the ‘VSM Application Research’ team that includes all the authors. During the last year, we have been exploring the new forms that Stafford Beer’s VSM and his suggested ‘Operations Room’ could be fully implemented in the current business and technological context, supported by artificial intelligence and other new forms of collaboration.
We will present our blueprint for designing A VSM environment for decision making, boosting the decision environment by using AI and cybernetic forms of collaboration, and leading to a new way to improve organisational effectiveness and capabilities for dealing with surprise and uncertainty.
It will discuss the reasons why this is necessary and urgent; the differences it will offer to equivalent toolkits in the market; the cornerstones of a Master Concept for a VSM environment for decision making, including the criteria for governance, the required information and communication technology to support it, and the way such a decision-making environment should be supported by real time information. We will offer a case study where these ideas are been tested in a real organisation. We finally will discuss how these decision making environment and tools will help businesses to more effectively communicate and interact between decision makers, at all recursive levels of an organisation.

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Steve Brewis

CEO, The Infinite Game

Professional SummarySystems thinker and cybernetician with a background in telecommunications, control systems mengineering and organizational design. Developer of the Ibex Identity Model and key frameworks integrating surprise metabolism, recursive closure, and cybernetic stewardship... Read More →

Angela Espinosa

Director, Metaphorum

Angela Espinosa (Colombia, 1958) got her PhD on organizational cybernetics in 1995. She worked closely with S Beer and was a co-founder and currently a Director of the Metaphorum Cooperative, which develops Beer’s legacy. She was a Reader in Cybernetics in Hull University Business... Read More →

Martin Pfiffner

Director, M Pfiffner Consulting

Expert in Organizational Structures and General Management with 30 years of international experience. Consulting/Training/Speaker. » 2017- Managing Director mpc» 2017-2023 Foundation Council, Fondation Oroborus» 2012-15 Board of Directors, Malik Management» 2010-13 Board of Directors... Read More →

Jose Perez Rios

Full Professor, Valladolid University, Spain

His research is focused on applying system dynamics and organizational cybernetics to the study of complex systems and on developing software tools that can facilitate the application of different systemic approaches, knowledge capture, communications, and information exchange. He... Read More →

Jon Walker

Director, Metaphorum

Jon Walker has over forty years experience working in the co-operative business sector. He has established and co-managed a range of businesses including retail outlets, a small-scale manufacturing plant, a warehouse and a chain of supermarkets dealing mainly with whole-food, organic... Read More →

Thursday July 3, 2025 15:30 - 17:00 BST
MBS Room 1 Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) The University of Manchester Booth Street West Manchester M15 6PB, England, United Kingdom

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Steve Brewis

Angela Espinosa

Martin Pfiffner

Jose Perez Rios

Jon Walker

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Angela Espinosa

Martin Pfiffner

Jose Perez Rios

Jon Walker

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