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Meansbusiness.com has selected "Swarm Intelligence for Organizational Design" as one of its Top Ten Ideas from 2001. The idea was published in the article "Swarm Intelligence - a whole new way to think about business" by Icosystem founder Eric Bonabeau and board member Christopher Meyer, in the May 2001 edition of Harvard Business Review. MeansBusiness (www.meansbusiness.com) is the largest and fastest growing database of business ideas in the world, providing corporations, universities and consultants with the latest and most advanced business thinking from the world's leading business experts-on demand. Executives use Means Business to help them innovate, solve complex problems, and create new strategies. MeansBusiness editors scan some 100 prominent magazines, newspapers, journals, and Web sites in search of the latest and most original business thinking. The top ten ideas were chosen from the MeansBusiness newsletters published during 2001. "Concepts borrowed from complexity science and self-organization are starting to percolate through the business world." said Eric Bonabeau. "The explosion in connectivity and communications has not only accelerated the pace of business change to an unprecedented level, it has also made the world so complex that no human being can hope to make the right decisions using traditional management tools. Managers must embrace a new mindset: there are alternatives to centralization, control, and strategic planning. By adopting the "complexity mindset", companies will be more adaptive and their strategies more robust. Icosystem is operationalizing the complexity paradigm into a set of approaches to strategy design that promise to revolutionize business." About Icosystem Corporation Icosystem Corporation, a strategy consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has emerged as a leader in the development of business applications for network theory and complexity science. Using the tools of complexity science and advanced computational techniques, Icosystem provides a highly flexible and cost-effective technology platform for exploring business problems and discovering or designing strategies that have significant impact. Icosystem's approach uses realistic models of complex business environments and evolutionary and distributed computational techniques to validate new business ventures or improve the performance of existing enterprises. |
