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Practice: Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation
Use a small disturbance-response model to test a claim about regulation. Basic examples of requisite variety, feedback delay and whole-system effects. The SCiO row is broader; this page does not claim to cover every law in a systems-laws course.
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Summary
Use a small disturbance-response model to test a claim about regulation. Basic examples of requisite variety, feedback delay and whole-system effects. The SCiO row is broader; this page does not claim to cover every law in a systems-laws course.
Implications for practice
A concrete rehearsal with a fictional case, explicit outputs and a way to inspect the result.
Key distinctions
- Mechanical correctness is distinct from judgement in an open situation.
- Training-case application is distinct from competent organisational practice.
Historical development
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Ideas it depends on
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Further developments
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Connections to practice
- Construct the disturbance-response table.
- Design one legitimate attenuation and one amplification.
- Test the five-day feedback delay.
- Replace the local success claim with a test of the whole service.
Common confusions
- A worked comparison is not the only acceptable answer to an open question.
Further checks
- Basic examples of requisite variety, feedback delay and whole-system effects. The SCiO row is broader; this page does not claim to cover every law in a systems-laws course.
- Compare an independent attempt before revealing the worked answer.
Recorded connections
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Status: candidate · Relation: includes practice resource
Resource inventory only; completing a page is not accreditation.
Locator: Named exercise and its scope statement
- Systemic systems methods practice for systems practice (alpha) (original material and source boundary recorded)
Status: candidate · Relation: provides practice for
Basic examples of requisite variety, feedback delay and whole-system effects. The SCiO row is broader; this page does not claim to cover every law in a systems-laws course.
Locator: Named exercise and its scope statement
- Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation (original material and source boundary recorded)
Status: candidate · Relation: provides practice for
Basic examples of requisite variety, feedback delay and whole-system effects. The SCiO row is broader; this page does not claim to cover every law in a systems-laws course.
Locator: Named exercise and its scope statement
- Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation (original material and source boundary recorded)
Status: candidate · Relation: provides practice for
Basic examples of requisite variety, feedback delay and whole-system effects. The SCiO row is broader; this page does not claim to cover every law in a systems-laws course.
Locator: Named exercise and its scope statement
- Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation (original material and source boundary recorded)
Sources and passage locators
- Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation (original material and source boundary recorded)
- SCiO competency framework resource guide (PDF) (specific access and content limit recorded)
- OU: drawing systems maps, SAQ 3 and Activities 19-22 (specific access and content limit recorded)
- SCiO systems practice courses (specific access and content limit recorded)
- Systemic systems methods practice for systems practice (alpha) (original material and source boundary recorded)
Cite this entry
Taylor, B. P. (2026). Practice: Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/practice_lab_systems_laws/
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