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Hunter New England Health in New South Wales, Australia, have completed a major Pandemic Influenza Simulation Exercise using Swarmteams, a bioteams-based multi-channel community engagement system, to manage the communications of an Emergency Operations Centre.

'Swarm principles' foster the most efficient and effective means/methods of communication irrespective of numbers of participants and can be adapted into any context.

To read Swarmteams in Major Pandemic Test

Ken Thompson is an expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books:

Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs

The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks

Ken writes the highly popular bioteams blog which has over 500 articles on all aspects of bioteams (aka organizational biomimicry) - in other words how human groups can learn from nature's best teams.

Ken is also founder of an exciting European technology company Swarmteams which provides unique patent-pending bioteaming technologies for all shapes and sizes of groups, social networks, business clusters, virtual/mobile communities and enterprises. Swarmteams enables groups to be more responsive and agile by fully integrating their mobile phones and the web with bioteam working techniques. The latest Swarmteams implementation is SwarmTribes which helps musicians and bands form a unique collaboration with their fans for mutual benefit.

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Bioteams Books Reviews

What teams can learn from wolves

May 12, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

If you think that there is not much human teams can learn from nature think again! Temple Grandin in her amazing book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (p303-307) puts forward the incredible theory that early humans only became today’s successful homo sapiens because they learned to act and think like the wolves they co-habited with.

Buy it now from:
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Amazon.Co.UK

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Related Case Studies in Collaboration Articles

Self-managed teams: commercial examples

April 22, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Case Studies in Collaboration (20)

They sound neat in theory but do self-managed teams (SMTs) actually work. In, Trust People and They'll Surprise You, Jeremy Zawodny describes a couple of real examples including a jet engine plant and SouthWest Airlines. Another good example of an SMT is Capital One Bank.

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Sports teams and organizational teams both need the right culture

November 25, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Case Studies in Collaboration (20)

Developing a buy-in culture to get the most out of your sports or business team

Bioteam's Guest Article by Dave Cooper

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Virtual Collaboration - a cautionary tale

September 21, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Case Studies in Collaboration (20)

or you don’t benefit from the know-how you don’t use

I do a bit of flying and Ray's excellent cautionary tale, which follows here, reminds me of the 3 most useless things in aviation:

1. Runway behind you


2. Sky above you (nobody ever crashed into the sky!)


3. Fuel back at the airport

Bioteams Guest Article by Ray Symmes

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