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| Author: | Bonabeau, E. Meyer, C. |
| Title: | Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think About Business |
| Journal: | Harvard Business Review
2001 : MAY, VOL. 79:5, p. 106-115 |
| Index terms: | MATHEMATICAL MODELS SCHEDULING ENTERPRISE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Individually, social insects are only minimally intelligent, and their work together is largely self-organized and unsupervised. Yet collectively they're capable of finding highly efficient solutions to difficult problems and can adapt automatically to changing environments. Over the past 20 years, the authors and other researchers have developed rigorous mathematical models to describe this phenomenon, which has been dubbed "swarm intelligence," and they are now applying them to business. Their research has already helped several companies develop more efficient ways to schedule factory equipment, divide tasks among workers, organize people, and even plot strategy. The authors state that in the future a company might structure its entire business using the principles of swarm intelligence. The result would be the ultimate self-organizing enterprise. |
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