Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Design for Emergence Mark Bonchek, founding voice of Gennova, has been using the concept of design for emergence in his work creating and managing senior business leader networks at Tapestry Networks. Since he used the phrase in a Gennova meeting recently, I've been finding myself applying it in my own thinking about networks. In particular, as I think about answers to the question, "how do I create a network?" or "what are the important things you need to think about in designing a network," I think, "design for emergence."
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Hi Patti, I believe you are right that networks will always change. Social structures are almost per definition dynamic. Yet they can be understood, as the grandmaster of social dynamics Kurt Lewin put it in the 50s: nothing as practical as a good theory. I am studying this as well and came up with a method for capturing spontaneity into information structures or better, knowledge structures, first and foremost: of oneself.
Regards, Ron C. de Weijze www.pmm.nl # posted by
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hi Patti,
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Not remembering the URL of my Google Notebook page on collective intelligence, I googled myself with the CI keyword, which led me here, through the Complexity Digest's reference, to your blog entry. Aren't Google and the web a great "design" for emergence? Web 2.0 is even more so. See my Google Notebook entries on "Web 2.0 for Emergence"at http://www.google.com/notebook/public/12962173868417053468/BDSJaSwoQvPrmw9oh . Of course the question of facilitating emergence is much more than technologies. The question that's working on me is this: What are the most potent combinations of electronic and social technologies for enabling evolutionary emergence at increasing scale. Thank you for triggering this leg of our journey.
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