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 (1)
  44. Surprise attacks (2)
  45. Surprise attacks (3)
  46. Relative transaction costs