Conference: Toward the Business Ecosystem?

Organisations face a rapidly changing environment: the emergence of China as the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, the progressive transfer of knowledge-based services to India, the diffusion of the network society, and of its nervous system, the internet, are the coordinate axes of a new environment. Radical changes in the geography of costs, production, human and social capital, are affecting the space-time of business and altering the traditional business fronteers, either geographic, sectorial, or specialisation-wise. Many organisation have reacted to the climate of uncertainty by decentralising production and innovation, shifting actvities to the electronic dimension, and, curiously, adopting certain aspects of the model of the Internet, with its distributed, modular, parallel, robust, and self-organising architecture. The trend toward organisational distributedness generates organisations better able to cope with a regime of rapid technological change, modify strategies to global and local environments and thrive into uncertain and ambiguous markets. [via Complexual.org.uk]