Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Law of Requisite Variety

Some time ago I wrote about matching the complexity of a system with the way you manage it. (http://insights-foresight.blogspot.com/2010/03/simple-complicated-or-complex.html). I was unaware of the Law of Requisite Variety posed by Ashby. I recently came across another mention of this concept and its use by Stafford Beer on complexity in Watt-Works.