Advanced Collaboration Research

Sharing practical ways to engage in the Collaboration Revolution

The Secret Economic Lives of Animals

If Adam Smith had strapped on a bee suit, he could have discovered that the animal kingdom is, in fact, a chamber of commerce.
Brandon Klein Aug 01, 2017

Curating Smart Networks

Why Are Living Networks So Smart?
Brandon Klein Jul 30, 2014

Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile

Since time immemorial humans have complained that life is becoming more complex, but it is only now that we have a hope to analyze formally and…
Brandon Klein Jun 10, 2014

Ants 2014: Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems.…
Brandon Klein Dec 03, 2013

How a choice of social learning networks can make us smarter | KurzweilAI

“These results suggest that rather than our individual intelligence, it is our sociality — being embedded in large, well-connected populations — that…
Brandon Klein Nov 18, 2013

Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation | Business Inspired By Nature

Most people in business subscribe to an out-dated worldview, a perception of reality inadequate for dealing with the volatile and globally…
Brandon Klein Dec 13, 2012

Living Systems : Learning From Nature Exercise

DESCRIPTION: To understand organizations, it’s often instructive to look at life and how living things work. In this module, a DesignTeam (or teams)…
Brandon Klein Nov 23, 2006