Megacommunities are tackling the World's Toughest Problems
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Poste Italiane CEO Massimo Sarmi in the company's cybersecurity control room.Photograph by Marco Di Lauro
To read The Megacommunity Approach to Tackling the World's Toughest Problems
One of the key concepts of Bioteams is that they have a biological view of the nature of their boundaries based around the semi-porous membrane concept.
This provides them with boundaries which are open enough to take in the energy of new ideas but closed enough to keep out the poisons, pests and parasites of those not fully committed to the goals of the joint endeavour!
For more on this see The Bioteaming Manifesto
About Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:- Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
- Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
- How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
- Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.
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It will provide a framework for businesses to manage their internal and external relationships effectively within their supply chains.
Frank Post, Marketing Director of British Standards said,
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