Cybernetics Conversation

Abdul Aziz explores his vision of a shift from the mechanistic “You or Me” operating model to one of “You AND Me”. He argues that most organisations have both an organising logic and a structural reality and almost none manage the methodological and political gap between them. The structural model embeds power, asserts ownership, and creates the illusion of control in ways the organising logic never sanctioned.


Abdul proposes instead The Viable Operating Model (VOM), a mediating methodology grounded in Beer's Viable System Model, Maturana and Varela's organisation/structure distinction and Kauffman's constraint closure. It is designed to hold organising logic and structural realisation in continuous, productive tension as a perpetual practice.

The VOM is the hand that thinks.