July 3, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in News & Media (143)
The Chicago Sun-Times just reported a 52-minute delay in the Houston Astros versus San Diego Padres baseball game when a swarm of bees took over part of left field at Petco Park - it took a beekeeper to sort it all out.
- Swarms 101: Introduction to swarming by computer and phone
Swarms 101 is a short interactive web-based presentation which introduces...
- Animal Leadership: Dictatorship Rules in Baboon Societies
About 18 months ago I listened to Andrew King give...
- Unique Bioteams Reference Card
A unique reference card for printing on 2-sided A4...
- Discover Bioteams via Experiential Learning
What is the best way to introduce bioteaming into any...
- Bioteams Reference Card
As part of the bioteams practitioners network I plan to...
- Bioteams 101: Introduction to Bioteams Principles
A Bioteam is a team which has a life of...
- Biology and High Performance Teams
Listen to Ken Thompson and Lisa Kimball answer questions on...
- Which teams need bioteams: free bioscore calculator
I explained previously how to spot if a team...
- Bioteams Practitioners Network: Update
I would just like to thank the many people...
- Bioteams Practitioners Network Launched
As a result of many requests I am pleased to...
- The 3 types of Bioteam: Business networks, Fan Communities and Mobile teams
Since publishing the Bioteams book it has become very clear...
- Virtual Teams And The Bioteaming Approach - A Video Interview With Ken Thompson
Robin Good of MasterNewMedia.org has published a short video clip...
- How nature optimises its teams
Nature has a way of automatically right-sizing a group to...
- Wired Magazine features Bioteams
Are you smarter than a goose? Sure you are --...
- Implementing Bioteams thru Action Learning
What is the best way to introduce bioteaming into any...
- The Bioteaming Breakthrough for High Performance Teams
To succeed in work environments today, you must be able...
- Bioteams and natures social networks: NLAB Conference
Ken Thompson presented on the topic: "Bioteams: what can...
- What teams can learn from spiders
Our old friend the spider gets a lot of bad...
- Sports teams and organizational teams: a bioteams crowdbreaker
I have to thank Jo Jordan for the idea behind...
- Did ants invent the perfect mobile communications system
Ants interact using a system known as pheromones, involving sending...
- Bioteams Instant Assessment Tool: Improved Version
I am pleased to announce a new version of the...
- Bioteams: The Next Frontier of Business Process Management
Support for collaboration is the hot discussion in BPM circles...
- Online team assessment: free bioteams tool released
I am pleased to announce the release of a new...
- Bioteaming is biomimicry of social structures
Janine Benyus, talking at TED, describes biomimicry as learning an...
- Video: How do ants know what to do?
Armed with a few students, a backhoe and a handful...
- Small Team Collaboration: Seven Key Beliefs To Work As A Great Team
What makes great teams such? Is it just a coincidence...
- Team Swarming: are your team wasps or bees
Sometimes the Bee-team is the A-team: the importance of an...
- The law of requisite variety and team agility
An obvious characteristic of nature’s best teams is that they...
- The four disciplines of great teams
I have noticed that there are four things which good...
- Team Transformation Rule 2: Cultivate Team Intelligence
Cultivating Team Intelligence provides organizational teams, networks and communities with a much better early warning 'radar' thus enabling them to spot and deal with problems/opportunities sooner.
- Team transformation rule 1: Stop trying to control them
In this article I suggest that organizational teams, networks and...
- Design better social software using Living Systems Theory
With the explosion in social software and the recognition that...
- Biological teams live
Much of the foundation of bioteaming is based on the...
- Organizational teams: learning from nature
Ken Thompson, writing for Insider Knowledge Magazine, in Why Penguins...
- Generation-C Teams make natural bioteams
In the ground-breaking book Communities Dominate Brands, Tomi Ahonen and...
- Virtual team member autonomy: learn from software agents
Team leaders who want their team members to show more...
- Black Sun teams use flocking and scale
During spring in Denmark, just before sunset, flocks of more...
- The Bioteaming Manifesto
The Bioteaming Manifesto is the definitive summary of the key...
- New Bioteams Video by Robert Scoble
Many Thanks to Robert Scoble of Scoble Show fame for...
- Penguins reveal the true essence of bioteams
Many people have been enchanted by the amazing video “The...
- Belbin on bioteams
Dr R Meredith Belbin, regarded as the father of "team-role"...
- Organisations are living complex systems claims physicist
Fritjof Capra says organisations are not just like living systems...
- Bioteams: an introduction
How is it that even with our vastly superior intelligence...
- Fact: Biological organisations live longer
One of the most compelling reasons why organisations, enterprises, teams...
- Mass Collaboration and Virtual Crowds
Could a virtual team have a million members? Recent developments...
- Group Messaging Instincts: how to recover them
Biological teams make extensive use of short messages as their...
- Ant communications: experience them through a simulator
Ant communications are very different from the communications we typically...
- Human swarming: the mexican wave
Those who don’t believe that humans can swarm and flock...
- Bioteams blogged live
Many thanks to Nancy White for her excellent and very...
- Bioteaming: Natural Models for Virtual Teams
I presented Bioteaming: Natural Models for Virtual Teams at the...
- Nature's best cooperation strategy revealed
Two collaboration strategies, Tit-For-Tat (TFT) and Win-Stay,Lose-Shift (WSLS), out-perform all...
- My best bioteam articles
Here is a collection of the 4 most popular bioteaming...
- Cooperation not competition underpins evolution
A significant body of research into evolution now indicates that...
- Self organization in natures teams
Richard Conniff in his excellent paper, The limits of the...
- The six key processes in a biological team
In traditional organisational teams we have processes like selection, mobilisation,...
- How symbiotic is your collaboration
Symbiosis is a central tenet of bioteams which in bioteams...
- Team communication patterns: key lessons from nature
From studying nature's bioteams it seems there are 3 dominant...
- Recovering team and group Messaging Instincts
My research into biological teams has revealed that they make...
- Top teams know how to swarm
In a previous article, Seven 'model behaviours' for bioteam members,...
- The social networks of virtual teams
Bioteams pay as much attention to their weak ties: the...
- Enhance team performance by consistent individual behavior
A key principle of bioteams is team member self-management. Nature's...
- Biological ecosystems: what business teams must learn
When a new enterprise enters its market it must quickly...
- Bioteams: an introduction
Almost all of us have been part of some team...
- New research on beliefs of High Performing Teams
We have completed a short research project into the beliefs...
- Team adaptability secrets: the law of requisite variety
One of the aspects of bioteams in nature is that...
- A critical test of collaboration: the 3 greens check
Much has been written about why people collaborate and the...
- Bioteams Rule 2: Team Intelligence
Instead of issuing orders, nature's teams such as ants, geese,...
- Teamwork: learning from dolphin pods
The seven habits of highly effective dolphins. According to a...
- Natures four teamwork systems
What is Teamwork? Although there are many different definitions, in...
- The perfect mobile group communications system: adopt nature’s oldest signalling system
Pheromone-based messaging is the oldest and most evolved form of...
- The definitive guide to bioteams
New bioteaming manifesto published I am delighted to announce that,...
- The seven beliefs of high performing teams
Beliefs are the fuel which can really energise bioteams There...
- A new bioteams manifesto?
Its now six months since Robin Good and I published...
- The secret DNA of high-performing virtual teams
Bioteaming – the secret to high-performing, self-organising, virtually networked teams...
- Virtual team organisation and three action rules from nature
Bioteams are sustainable self-organising systems...
- Virtual team execution: three action rules from nature
Natures teams are exceptionally good at taking action, co-operating and...
- Virtual team mobilisation and three powerful tips from nature
There are 3 types of recognition in nature: Species Recognition,...
- Virtual team connectivity - three action rules from nature
Bioteams are highly connected virtual networks In this article I...
- Virtual team productivity - three action rules from nature
In this article I introduce and identify the fundamental key...
- Virtual Teams - a new paradigm from nature
Bioteaming:Why virtual teams need more than internet technology to succeed....
- Virtual teams, biomimicry and biomimetrics
Learning from mother nature's designs becomes scientific mainstream A new...
- History of the Bioteams logo
Dr Humberto Maturana and Dr Franciso Varela, 2 Chilean biologist/neuroscientists,...
- The Lifecycle of a Bioteam
How bioteams are born, grow, reproduce, decline... and die!.I would...
- Bioteams Glossary
Here is a number of terms definitions that relate to...
- A Design Framework for Bioteams
The Trinity of all Living Systems - A Design...
- Bioteaming: A Manifesto For Networked Business Teams
A Conceptual Framework For The Successful Management Of Physically Distributed...
July 1, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in Online Collaboration Tools (37)
Online WhiteBoards (OWB) aka collaborative whiteboards are a new class of web tool, which let remote users interact over the web in real-time using a shared virtual whiteboard. I have reviewed 5 of them and believe, that whilst they are not yet fully mature, OWBs could become valuable support tools for virtual brainstorming or open innovation activities.
June 15, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in Bioteams Features (86)
Swarms 101 is a short interactive web-based presentation which introduces the basic concept of a Swarm, the key Swarm characteristics (Open v Closed, Star v Peer...) and how Swarms can be combined into powerful "Swarm Communities" through the ability to exist in mulltiple swarms (as Swarm Owner and/or Swarm Users). Includes examples of Swarm Communities in Music, Brands and Public Health.
May 31, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in Virtual Collaboration Networks (34)
A few years back I developed a simulation to expose key dilemmas in the incubation stage of Virtual Enterprise Networks. I used a powerful simulation-building tool called ithink from Isee, the newest version of which now allows deployment of simulations over the web. So I just republished the VEN simulation for free on www.bioteams.com.
May 28, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in New Technologies (1)
Swarmteams is about to launch a major new software version offering a 1-stop shop for anyone who needs to engage and empower key networks of customers, consumers, fans or supporters - over any and all channels.
May 20, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in Virtual Collaboration Networks (34)
NEWLY RELEASED 15-minute video of me (Ken Thompson) introducing the concepts of The Networked Enterprise (TNE) and Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) at an event "Connecting Innovation" in Brighton (UK) organized by Use8 (The User Experience Society).
May 2, 2009 | article by Ken Thompson in News & Media (143)
I recently had the privilege of being invited to speak to a NASA audience at their Research Centre in Langley (Virginia) on the topics of Bioteams and The Networked Enterprise. My talk was very nicely reported for NASA News by Jim Hodges.
