Variety Dynamics Axioms

  1. Foundational axiom of Variety Dynamics

  2. Hierarchy and control

  3. Sub-system distribution and control

  4. Control by variety overload

  5. Transaction costs

  6. Dynamic behaviour

  7. Variety generation creates control

  8. Catalogues

  9. Variety definition

  10. Feedback loops for control

  11. Distribution of benefits

  12. Stability

  13. Shortfall and transfer of control

  14. Time is control

  15. Nyquist number

  16. Meta-functions of control

  17. Solution space

  18. Control of rogue systems and states

  19. Service design

  20. Control of feedback loops

  21. Control without feedback loops

  22. No system boundary or feedback loops

  23. Feedback and control variety

  24. Variety and information

  25. Variety as thermodynamic

  26. Power groups

  27. Variety as physical system

  28. Open systems

  29. Conservation of energy

  30. Reversibility

  31. Counterfactual variety

  32. Powerflow between HQ and departments

  33. Power acquisition via variety costs

  34. Transaction costs and scale

  35. Variety and exponential transaction costs

  36. Calculation of optimum variety

  37. Power laws and variety

  38. Opacity past 2 feedback loops

  39. Mimising damage of local power

  40. Security controls

  41. Organisational stability

  42. Reverse agency

  43. Surprise Attacks -Three conditions

  44. Surprise Attacks - Speed of Use of Variety

  45. Surprise Attacks – Variety in Interpretation (Deception)

  46. Relative transaction costs