Variety Dynamics is concerned with the consequences of the distributions and dynamics of distributions of variety in any situation.
Variety is the number of possible options available to different elements in a situation.
Theory of Variety Dynamics at this point has eleven strands:
- Focus on managing the dynamic locus and ownership of power and control in any situation
- Focus on the distributions and dynamics of distribution of variety (options) and how it shapes the locus and ownership of power
- Implications of the two-feedback loop limitation axiom for understanding by human agents of any situation.
- Role of time as an equivalent to variety
- Role of Coasian transaction costs of modifying variety distributions and subsequent changes in the locus and ownership of power
- Ways in which variety is more effective than physical force to change the locus of power and its ownership
- Variety Dynamics analysis as an alternative to causal analysis
- Variety Dynamics analysis information requirements are less than for causal analysis
- Covert nature of Variety Dynamics interventions
- The use of Variety Dynamics in addressing situations that do nor conform to the standard system analysis assumptions
- New mathematical field of variety, the dynamic V distribution, its dynamics and its mathematical relationship to power and control.