Decision and Control: The meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics by Stafford Beer

Author:Stafford Beer [Beer, Stafford]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-585-22484-8
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (UK)
Published: 1994-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

3. Environmental Disturbance

These then are some of the basic considerations about variety and its relevance to processes of control. So far, the whole discussion has been derived from Figure 27which is an absolutely minimal representation of the problem. It is necessary to extend this, if only by a small amount, to show how the management cybernetician can begin in practice to account for the more involved situations of real life. The next element to introduce into this isolated system, and one which will again make it only relatively isolated, is an environmental disturbance. As can be seen from Figure 28, the sub-system called the situation is likely to have another class of input than that which emanates from its control. The figure does not show how this originates, only that it represents the extramural interactions which make the situation relatively (and not absolutely) isolated from the environment at large.

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