The new role of management is to facilitate “connections”, to match people with the right skills and abilities to projects where those skills are most needed. Culture is an emergent property of people working together. For example, trust only emerges if knowledge is shared and diverse points of view are accepted. As MORE >>

and today is called “Social Business&# can be seen as the emergent stage of the intersection of significant advances in information technology, management science applied to business process, the analysis and control of operational activities AND the interaction and participation of people with information, opinions and knowledge to share. MORE >>

'Today’s digitally connected workplace demands a completely new set of skills. More connections create more possibilities, as well as more potential problems. In this emerging network era, social learning is how work gets done. The 21st century connected enterprise is a new world of work and learning. MORE >>

My growing feeling is that the widespread use of Social Media might soon enable us to gain the benefit of “Emergence&#. What you might ask is “Emergence&#. Then, as if by magic Emergence! With a small wood in place, more Emergence! So Emergence leads to more complexity and to more resiliency.  MORE >>

In my first post in this series I proposed that if we use the ideas of Emergence we might find the larger opportunity in Social Software – that it may help us solve many of our intractable problems. You need a lot of “Optimal Contact Points “ – Emergence is all about patterns. Tags: Emergence link]. MORE >>