Vester's Sensitivity Model
Fredrick Vester provides a comprehensive, set of interconnected methods and tools for understanding complex social systems.
There are nine interacting operations that make up the structure of a cybernetic system:
- Describing the SYSTEM
- Registering actuating VARIABLES
- Checking for SYSTEMIC RELEVANCE
- Studying the INTERACTIONS
- Determining ROLES within the system
- Examining overall INTERCONNECTEDNESS
- Cybernetics of individual SCENARIOS
- "What if" FORECASTS and POLICY TESTS
- EVALUATE the system and formulating STRATEGY