Technical dry runs with worked examples and answers
Alpha practice pack by Benjamin P Taylor (2026): free systems-method dry runs with worked examples and answers. Technical learning supports, but does not replace, real-world systems practice.
Library / Viable System Model
Body of work
Viable System Model
Practical routes into Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model and its use in organisations and public services.
Material
- Viable System Model lecture2025 · long-form teaching deck
A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource.
- A simplification of the Viable System Model2023 · four-slide introduction
A concise way into organisational viability.
- Power, systems, and the Viable System Model2023 · Metaphorum presentation
VSM through the lenses of power and human systems dynamics.
- Systems Innovation London VSM workshop2019 · with Patrick Hoverstadt
Workshop material co-delivered with Patrick Hoverstadt.
Systems methods practice: alpha version
Systems practice case studies
Eight public SCiO accounts of systems work with organisations, communities, and public services.