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Global Business Network
Global Business Network is a unique membership network that links remarkable
people and organizations in shared learning experiences about the future.
GBN's worldwide network includes subscribing corporate members--strategic
thinkers from over 50 leading companies--and select individuals from the
sciences, arts, business, and academia. GBN brings these "WorldView"
and "Network" members together in varied ways to explore driving
forces and critical uncertainties and to integrate these insights into
scenarios--alternative stories about the future. Through scenario thinking,
GBN challenges organizations continually to enrich their own strategic
conversations and to plan more effectively for an uncertain world. Go
to Global Business Network
Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP)
The Project's aim is the computer-supported collaborative development of
an evolutionary-systemic philosophy. Put more simply, PCP tries to tackle
age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic
theories and technologies. Go
to the Principia Cybernetica Project
The World Game Institute
The World Game Institute is a not-for-profit, non-partisan global research
and education organization founded in 1972 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Inspired by the pioneering insights and work of Buckminster Fuller, the
Institute today is an officially sanctioned United Nations Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO), whose mission is to provide the perspective and information
needed to solve the critical problems facing global society as we enter
the twenty-first century. Go
to The World Game Institute
Whole Systems
This area is devoted to the study of whole systems. Nature is a whole system.
But also an economy, a family, a company, a community, or many other things,
can be looked at as whole systems. A whole system view would include all
the factors involved and examine how they relate to each other and how
they work as a whole. To deal with a whole system we can't leave anything
out as irrelevant. Intuition is as important as rationality, we must address
both scientific and artistic approaches, both material and spritual needs,
the small as well as the big, what we feel as well as what we think, what
we perceive as well as what we imagine. Go
to Whole Systems
Axiom Reading Guide
The Amazing Business Renewal(tm) Reading List . ARTICLES . We view every
business as consisting of a series of interlocking mechanistic and human
dimensions. These dimensions include strategy, activities (or processes),
organizational structures, technologies, and people. The articles listed
are grouped by the dimension of the business system that they address.
Go to Axiom Reading Guide
NASA Langley
Go to NASA Langley Home Page
The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania
Go to The Wharton Home Page
The Forsight Institute
Go to The Forsight Institute
The Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is a private, independent, multidisciplinary research
and education center, founded in 1984. Since its founding SFI has devoted
itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing
emerging syntheses in science. Operating as a small, visiting institution,
SFI seeks to catalyze new collaborative, multidisciplinary research, to
break down the barriers between the traditional disciplines, to spread
its ideas and methodologies to other institutions, and to encourage the
practical appliations of its results. Go
to The Santa Fe Institute
The MIT Media Lab
MIT's Media Laboratory, founded in 1985, carries on advanced research into
a broad range of information technologies including digital television,
holographic imaging, computer music, computer vision, electronic publishing,
artificial intelligence, human/machine interface design, and education-related
technologies. Our charter is to invent and creatively exploit new media
for human well-being and individual satisfaction without regard to present-day
constraints. We employ supercomputers and extraordinary input/output devices
to experiment today with notions that will be commonplace tomorrow. The
not-so-hidden agenda is to drive technological inventions and break engineering
deadlocks with new perspectives and demanding applications. Go
to The Media Lab
Reiters Books in Downtown Anywhere
Reiters is a book store selling primarily professional and scientific books.
Reiters provides a good synopsis of recent releases. Sixty five categories
include: Business, Decision and Risk Analysis, Chaos and Complexity, Management
Information Systems, Nanotechnology, etc. Go
to Reiters Books
Engines and New Media
This is a book printed to the www about software engines, learning, business,
new media, etc. The Web version of Engines is organized as a network of
snippets which are interconnected by the questions they raise. To locate
the snippets which you'll find most interesting, start by selecting a general
area of interest from the categories listed. Go
to Engines and New Media
Yahoo
For sure the best index of just about everything on the web!
Go to Yahoo
BugHunt!
BugHunt! simulates the effect of bird predation on the composition of insect
populations. It is a laboratory exercise on microevolution. Go
to Bughunt
StrategyWeb
StrategyWeb is a service that provides business strategy information. This site
has chat areas that may have some interesting topics. Go
to StrategyWeb
Information Discovery
Information Discovery, Inc. is a business that provides "information
miners" for folks that are too busy to search the web. The important
aspect of this site is it has links to the better web search sites (Yahoo,
Galaxy, Harvest, Lycos, and JumpStation). Go
to Information Discovery
Text Link to Wharton Delphi Home Page.