About Me

I'm David HC Soul ... and for those of you old enough to remember no not THAT one ... although I have been known to answer to the name Hutch.

I am an entrepreneur but in the past have been employed by a number of small to medium sized business across a wide spectrum of industries and in positions from Production Management through Accounting and Finacial Management to General Management and excutive management at the C level (Research and Development, Administation, Finance, and CEO).

My experiences have tought me the difficulties of communications and control in enterprises of all types -- including not for profit and charitable -- in both centralized and decentralized structures. This has led me to interests and studies in the following areas especially:

Comlex Event Processing (CEP) - an emerging way of looking at ways to manage the complexity inherent in our global and enterprise computer and communications systems.

Cybernetics - the science of communication and control in animal and machine - especially the design of viable business systems according to Stafford Beer's VSM (viable systems model)

Sensor Networks - as the actual delivery platform for CEP systems designed according to the principles of Viable Sysems construction (managerial cybernetics).

Viable System Model

This lens is dedicated to exploring the work of Stafford Beer and the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM). It is especially concerned with the applicaton of cybernetics to the field of organizational design, management and control. &nbs...

General Systems Theory

The notion of a system may be seen as simply a more self-conscious and generic term for the dynamic interrelatedness of components. (Von Bertalanffy)General Systems Theory is closely related to Cybernetics... this lens concentrates on the former but...

Cybernetics

A simple view of Cybernetics is as the science of communications and control in animal and machine. Cybernetics, and the related domain of systems science , is the study all forms of "organized complexity", that is how different components...

A Cybernetics Library

Over the years I've accumulated a small library (<~4000 volumes)... among these are many fine books on Cybernetics, General Systems Theory, and Systems Thinking.... Some of the books that should be considered for any 'serious' cybernetics library...

Invention and Innovation

A look at Invention and Innovation over the ages -- with a special focus on construction and control of complex systems.

Me, Myself and I

Well no, not just about me. But rather about some of the things that I am interested in ... some of the things that do make me.... or at least myself if not I. A snapshot, if you will, of where I am with pointers to Journals, of where I've been, and...

Applied Cybernetics

Cybernetics, the science of communication and control in animal and machine has found practical application in almost all fields of human social endeavor as well as the physical sciences. This lens is a view of other Squidoo lenses that deal with spec...

Management Matters

This lens is based on a very simple premise....that Management does indeed matter, each of its modules looks at a different aspect of management that inturn matters to the overall practice of effective management. While the aim of this lens is not to...

Second Order Cybernetics

Second order Cybernetics considers the impact that the observer has on the system being observed.... as such it covers all most all aspects of human endeavor. In effect, those involved in second order cybernetics have turned the principles of cybernet...

Lens on Lens

Some personal views on Lens design, construction and promotion.  

Systems Science

Systems Science and cybernetics are closely related disciplines... this lens concentrates on  the former and discusses where the two come together.

Cybernetics: History and Biographies

This lens details with the development of Cybernetics (and to a lesser extent General Systems Theory) and the early research and philosophies of the founders of the disciplines.

Global Brain

The emergence of mass mind

K2 - General Cybernetics

k2 = general cybernetics  (incl. connectionism, systems theory, synergetics, decision theory, information theory) This lens also takes side glimpses at K1 and K3: k1 = core cybernetics k3 = applied cybernetics  (incl. Medical Cybernetics, Bio...

Complex Event Processing

Complex Event Processing (CEP) is the use of software to analyze and control software event systems -- that is virtually all IT systems in use today.

Macroscope

"The macroscope is unlike other tools. It is a symbolic instrument made of a number of methods and techniques borrowed from very different disciplines. It would be useless to search for it in laboratories and research centers, yet countless peo...

Synergetics

Synergetics is just at the beginning of constuction... please forgive the dust

Cybernetics: A Squidoo Meta Lens

This lens is intended to provide a view of the many resources available here on Squidoo that cover the fields of Cybernetics and the related fields of General Systems Theory, Systems Thinking, and Systems Dynamics. As a meta view it takes one possible...

Errors

An investigation into errors, especially those where poor design sets up humans to make mistakes

Anthropocybernetics

Macro-Anthropocybernetics - Human cybernetics as they affect social systems. Micro-Anthropocybernetics  - Human cybernetics in their application to human individuals.

Educational Cybernetics

Educational Cybernetics is concerned with improving both formal educational ventures and learning conversations. It is based on Cybernetics - the science of communication and control - but is often influenced by the more general System Sciences inclu...

Cybernetic Journals

To dig deeper (much deeper) into the rich tapestry of our world and how complex systems really work.... consider these academic resources.

Systems Thinking

The term systems thinking is often linked to the work of Peter Senge...the range of fields that are sometimes linked to the term include systems theory and cybernetics

Socio-Cybernetics

"Sociocybernetics can be defined as 'Systems Science in Sociology and Other Social Sciences' - systems science, because sociocybernetics is not limited to theory but includes application, empirical research, methodology, axiology (i.e., ethics a...

Biological Cybernetics

"Biological Cybernetics" is the experimental, theoretical and application-oriented study of information processing in organisms, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and ecological phenomena.

Cloverdale Community Football Association

Welcome to the home of the champions Cloverdale Community Football Association is a non-profit Society operated by volunteers.  Our purpose is to provide opportunities for youth to learn and play Canadian football in a competitive but fun and sa...

Scenario

Scenario Thinking is an attempt to recognize large-scale driving forces that will impact on how the future unfolds.   The objective is to examine possible future developments (that could impact on individuals, organizations or societies), in orde...