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Connecting Innovation - Virtual Networked Enterprises - Ken Thompson on myplick.com

Ken Thompson is an expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities, virtual teams and management simulation 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 social object owners (e.g. musicians/bands, sports teams, film-makers) and good cause sponsors (e.g. Volunteering, Environmental, Public Health) to form unique collaborations with their fans/supporters for mutual benefit.

Tags: innovation, VEN, Virtual Enterprise Network

Bioteams Books Reviews

Leadership under pressure: the two worst mistakes

August 7, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

I have been thinking a lot about what happens when a leader gets under severe pressure, usually because things are not going according to plan. It seems to me this is the very essence of real leadership and where leaders can really justify their salaries. BUT according to Professor Dietrich Dorner, in his excellent book The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations, there are two very tempting but ultimately disastrous tangents a leader can pursue in a crisis instead of addressing the real issues.

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Related Virtual Collaboration Networks Articles

Collaborative Networks: New Report on Ireland

June 30, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Virtual Collaboration Networks (40)

InterTradeIreland have just published a major (80 page) report Business Networks on the Island of Ireland which proves that networks and clusters are very much alive and growing in Ireland.

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Innovation Networks improve new product flow

September 27, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Virtual Collaboration Networks (40)

If you want to innovate you must first learn to collaborate

A couple of years ago I co-authored a major report for Forfas (the Irish national policy advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation) on Innovation Networks under the overall editorship of Tom Martin.

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The biological nature of business networks

January 13, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Virtual Collaboration Networks (40)

Harvard Professor Marco Iansiti predicts that the future business competition will not be between companies or even supply chains but between networks.

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