Hospitals are great icons of modern health care but the nature of the business of health care is that most of it takes place outside hospitals. We need hospitals when our treatments require expensive technology or our illnesses have become… read more →
Companies that mimic living systems have been gaining market share over more traditionally managed firms, which generally model themselves on mechanical systems. Firms that mimic living systems have an existential awareness that they are living communities of people, committed to… read more →
Since the Second World War, the West has witnessed unprecedented economic growth. Emerging economies too have followed suit, some now ranked as the top economic powers of the world. Industrialisation, technological advancement, economies of scale and increasingly efficient approaches to… read more →
This is a complete version of a ‘long-blog’ written by Al Kennedy on behalf of ‘The Nature of Business’ blog and BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation www.businessinspiredbynature.com I hope you enjoy this ‘long-blog’, as it covers important issues for today’s business paradigm shift and… read more →
People often ask me for examples of ‘businesses inspired by nature’. While there are many examples of organisations with aspects of applied nature’s inspiration, for example: InterfaceFLOR taking inspiration from nature for product design, Marks & Spencer taking inspiration from… read more →
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, or Thay as he is known by his thousands of followers outlines (in a lovely blog on the Guardian how a spiritual revolution is needed if we are going to confront the multitude of environmental challenges. Yet all too… read more →
Since the Industrial Revolution, we have achieved great feats of economic, social and technological advancement for which, as a species, we can be proud. Yet the challenges (and opportunities) now facing our businesses, economies and societies are all too apparent.… read more →
Professor Mervyn King, Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative, could not be more accurate when he said: “Since the days of the industrial revolution, companies have conducted business on two false assumptions, namely that the earth has infinite resources and… read more →
There was a lovely blog on the Guardian from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh who has been visiting the UK about, he talked then, as he does throughout his life, on the importance of reconnecting to nature at depth that elludes many people… read more →
Successful transformation is less about structured hierarchies and more about flexible re-combinations of adaptive interdependent systems within systems. Sometimes these re-combinations grow then stabilise and other times they help open windows of instability leading to new combinations that then provide… read more →