The family is the basic unit of society acording to my good friend Guy. A collection of families are a village, town or city and a collection of these are a nation. Of course in nature there are examples of such systems in place and equally those that spread their subsequent generations far and wide. [...]
Increasingly businesses are learning from natural systems; or ‘biomimetics’. Major innovations such as cybernetics, swarm intelligence and artificial neural networks have been derived from biomimetic principles. Phil has worked with companies including DTI, MoD and Gillette looking at issues such as:
Imitating organizational principles from social behaviour of organisms like ants, bees, and micro-organism
Mimicking mechanisms found [...]