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BBPM 1/10: Organisational Learning, Creativity and Innovation
The first module in the Background Business Psychology series looks at Organisational Learning, Creativity and Innovation. Read more... >> BBPM 2/10: Organisational Learning, Creativity and InnovationThe second module in the Background Business Psychology series looks at Individual Creativity. Read more... >>
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Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 1 |
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Usually, the founding-father status for Chaos and Complexity theory is given to Edward Lorenz in the 1960s. He was a weatherman interested in long-term forecasting using mathematical models. He found that a small error in the input to his computer (0.506 instead of 0.506127) led to extremely divergent patterns of weather.
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Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 2 |
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[Continued from Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 1]
Another
example of a chaotic system is Lorenz’s waterwheel:
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Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 3 |
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[Continued from Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 2] Video showing examples of fractals in nature.
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Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 4 |
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Friday, 02 December 2011 00:14 |
[Continued from Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 3] Scale 
Hopefully,
the above has given you some insights into the understanding of Chaos Theory.
Formally, Chaos theory is the study of relative simple systems and how they can
give rise to complex and unpredictable behaviour.
Complexity is
a sub-section of Chaos theory. Complexity theory has its focus on systems that
contain many elements, and how multiple interactions between these elements can
lead to well-organized and predictable behaviour.
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Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 5 |
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Friday, 02 December 2011 00:13 |
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[Continued from Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 4] Other
examples include Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search, the World Cafe or
Knowledge Cafe, and Open Space Technology.
Emergence on the Web
The
Internet offers many examples of decentralized systems exhibiting emergent
properties.
For
example, there is no central organization rationing the number of links, yet
the number of links pointing to each page follows a power law in which a few
pages are linked-to many times and most pages are seldom linked to, (hence
SEO).
A
related property of the network of links in the World Wide Web is that almost
any pair of pages can be connected to each other through a relatively short
chain of links. Although relatively well known now, this property was initially
unexpected in an unregulated
network. It is shared with many other types of networks called small-world
networks. (Shared vocabularies.)
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Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 6 |
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Friday, 02 December 2011 00:12 |
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[Continued from Chaos and Complexity Theory - part 5] 
Viral
Change (creating behavioural change in business through social networks)
Viral video
Chain
letters
Viral email
Clothing
fashion trends
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