The preliminary questions from the VSM-club to Raul Espejo

Dear Raul,
Finally send you our questions.

We actually had some debates because we have so many to ask :)

I've tried to make a tree of questions, so we can go deeper in a
series of online
conferences if you find it interesting and useful.
Anyway this time it will be very good just to meet each other online and to talk
about our activities and plans.

Questions we are interested in:
1. Introduction
      1.1. Please tell about yourself, about your activities
      1.2. We'll do the same in a few words

2. Practical use of VSM
      2.1. Tell about  Syncho group
      2.2. Tell some success stories
      2.3. Tell about ViPlan program
      2.4. How do you see for us to use VSM in practice?
      2.5. How would do you see Cybersyn HERITAGE today with modern IT?
      2.6. What do you think about companies integration from below using
VSM-based enterprise information system and metasystem transition
approach?

3. International communities and future development
      3.1. What do you know about using the VSM ideas around the World now?
      We are interested in communication with the VSM communities
abroad Russia.
      3.2. What is new in mordern management cybernetics approach?
      3.3. What are hot directions in management cybernetics development
and applications?
      3.4. Are there correlations between popular management approaches
(Lean, TOC, BSC, ...) and VSM? Can we integrate them?
      3.5. What do you think about communicative management approach that
focuses on psychology, conflict of interests and the other aspects of
social systems?
      3.6. What do you think about responsibility question in practical use
of operational room where the decisions are preparing by many groups
of specialists (decision-makers, analytics, IT-specialists, experts,
economists, mathematicians, ...)? What kind of interactions should be
between these groups?

4. Cybersyn Project
Most of us learn about Cybersyn from Brain of THE Firm book. It's very
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interesting to know some details, like:
      4.1. What was the role of Cybersyn in economy system?
      4.2. What kind of control actions there were (priorities,
recommendations, plans, commands, ...)? Can we use the Cybersyn
experience for private business?
      4.3. Which indexes used for industries and enterprises?

Sure we won't have enough time to discuss them all, so please choose
questions that you would like to talk about.
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