{
  "title": "Simplifying Organisations Without Undermining Coordination",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/complexite-organisationnelle-et-simplification-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-02-11",
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  },
  "summary": "A law of cybernetics, with an interpretive application to organisations.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Fribourg",
    "region": "Fribourg",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "The Research",
      "point": "Ashby (1956, An Introduction to Cybernetics) establishes that the variety of a control system must equal that of the system being controlled.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The Limitation",
      "point": "A law of cybernetics, with an interpretive application to organisations.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The Nuance",
      "point": "Simplifying a complex organisation beyond a certain point leaves it unable to handle the actual cases it encounters."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Practical Implication, Testable in Fribourg",
      "point": "Before eliminating a process, list the cases it handles and verify who will handle them afterwards."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "authors": "Ashby",
      "year": "1956",
      "source": "An Introduction to Cybernetics"
    }
  ],
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