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Articles

Business, Innovation, etc. ...

Building ValueWebs: Creating the 21st Century Organization, by Matt Taylor, June 22, 1999. http://www.matttaylor.com/public/valueweb.htm

Chaos Inc., by Simon Caulkin."If you're wondering what will be the next Big idea after reengineering, here's a prime candidate." http://www.co-i-l.com/knowledge-garden/oi/articles/chaosinc.shtml

Complexity Science: A Route Through Hard Times and Uncertainty, by Brenda Zimmerman, Ph.D., Health Fourum Journal, November/December 2000 Volume: 43 No.: 6. http://www.healthforumjournal.com/asp/ArticleDisplay.asp?PubID=7&ArticleID=1259&Keyword=complexity

Cyberhouse Rules, by Thomas M. Siebel, Forbes ASAP, November 27, 2000. http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1127/096.html

Decision Making as a Learning Activity, Chapter Four in The Living Company, by Arie de Geus, Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Fitness Landscapes & Investment Strategies: Part 1 & Part 2, by Robert Loest, Ph.D., CFA
http://www.ipsmillennium.com/commentary/fitness
http://www.ipsmillennium.com/commentary/fitness2.html

Gone Chaordic, Dee Hock, the mastermind behind Visa, has some ideas about reorganizing health care, by Joe Flower, Health Forum, http://www.healthforum.com/hfpubs/asp/ArticleDisplay.asp?PubID=&ArticleID=581&Keyword=chaordic

How We Went Digital Without a Strategy, by Ricardo Semler, Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2000, pg. 51. Click here for a pdf version of the article.

Increasing Returns and the Two Worlds of Business, by W. Brian Arthur, Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1996. Click here for a pdf of this article.

Knowledge -> Intelligence -> Wisdom: Essential Value Chain of the New Economy, by George Por, Founder of Community Intelligence Labs, http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/kd/kiwkeynotes.shtml

Knowledge Management: Moving the care model from a "snapshot" to a "story", by Verna Allee, Health Forum Journal, November/December 2000 Volume: 43 No.: 6. http://www.healthforumjournal.com/asp/ArticleDisplay.asp?PubID=7&ArticleID=1305&Keyword=Knowledge+Management

Life at the Edge of Chaos, by Curt Lindberg, Alfred Herzog, MD, Martin Merry, MD, Jeffrey Goldstein, PhD., NHG Consulting, http://www.nhgmaine.com/Articles/life_at_the_edge_of_chaos.htm

Net vs Norm, a Lifesaving Revamp, The once-staid London International Financial Fugures and Options Exchange has transformed itself into a New Economy Leader, by David H. Freedman, Forbes ASAP, November 27, 2000. http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1127/051.html

The Next Decade, 20 Visionaries, 10 Years, Computerworld, January 4, 1999.

Premises Regarding the Knowledge Economy, by Matt & Gail Taylor, Mobius Magazine, December 1993.
http://www.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/jotm/fall96/premknec.htm

Rules of the Web: An Application of Patch Theory to Collaborative Design, by Bryan S. Coffman, March 18, 1997 http://www.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/jotm/winter97/webrules.htm

Strategy as a Portfolio of Real Options, by Timothy A. Luehrman, Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1998.

Stumbling onto the Future, Melting chocolate, spilling sulfur, and other scientific serendipity, by Kip Crosby, Forbes ASAP, November 27, 2000. http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1127/109.html

Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?, by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy, Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2000, pg 102. Click here for a pdf version of the article.

What's Luck Got to Do With It? Everything, by Michael Wolff, Forbes ASAP, November 27, 2000. http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1127/068.html

Who is the Transition Manager?, a 7 Domains® Workshop product,
http://www.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/7dws4/tmcreed.htm

Current Events

Big Challenges for Managed Care, LA Times, December 1, 2000. http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20001201/t000115065.html

Company, Researchers Battle Over Data Access, by Carol Cruzan Morton, Science, November 10, 2000, pg. 1063.

Families Sue Hospital, Scientist For Control of Canavan Gene, by Eliot Marshall, Science, November 10, 2000, pg. 1062.

Healing The Health Care Business, Why the Internet Is Not a Magic Pill, by Elizabeth Gardner, Internet World, May 15, 2000. http://www.internetworld.com/051500/5.15cover1.asp

Health Care and the Net, The Internet will transform the industry eventually, but it's a tough one to wring a profit from. by Debbie Gravitz, Red Herring, October 2000. http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue83/mag-healthnet-83.html

Medicinal Antibodies Could Turn Biotech Firms Into Giants, by Paul Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News, December 6, 2000. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/business/top/027526.htm

Pill Program Jeopardizes Patients, LA Times, by David Kravets, December 6, 2000. http://www.latimes.com/health/men/menswire/20001206/tCB00V0568.html

When Holes in Swiss Cheese Line Up, by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post, Wednesday, November 29, 2000, http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/10/22/Health/Health.14088.html

General

The Real 'Hot Zone,' In a bold new book, evolutionist Paul Ewald argues that viruses and bacteria play a huge, hidden role in heart disease, cancer and other modern plagues, by Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek, November 27, 2000.

When Doctors Make Mistakes, by Atul Gawande, The Best American Science Writing 2000, edited by James Gleick, Ecco Press, 2000.

Living Systems

Close Encounters: Good, Bad, and Ugly, Viewed in the light of evolution, host-parasite relationships range from deadly to helpful, depending on the communication between them, by Elizabeth Pennisi, Science, November 24, 2000, pg. 1491.

Living Systems, the Internet, and the Human Future, by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/LSinetHF.html

S'poze

At the Zoo, The last two baseline humans in captivity have bred successfully, by Warren Ellis,A Futures Essay from Nature, November 16, 2000. Click here for a pdf of the article.

Brain drain, Why civilizations fall silent, by Frederik Pohl, A Futures Essay from Nature, November 23, 2000. Click here for a pdf of the article.

Technology

Bug-Propelled Subs, Writhing bacteria could power micro-robots round your veins, by Mark Schrope, New Scientist, November 25, 2000. http://www.newscientist.com/nlf/1125/bugpropelled.html

Brain Signals Show to Move a Robot's Arm, by Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times, November 16, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/16/science/16ROBO.html (registration required)

Eyes Like a Hawk, One day your optician could give you superhuman eyesight, by Eugenie Samuel, New Scientist, November 25, 2000. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns226629

First Bionic Eyes, by Victor Chase, Technology Review, November/December 2000. http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov00/benchmark1.htm

In the Waiting Room, Robodocs may be here, but remote surgery remains remote, Scientific American, December, 2000. http://www.sciam.com/2000/1200issue/1200techbus1.html

Lamprey Cyborg Sees the Light and Responds, by S. Perkins, Science News, November 11, 2000. http://www.sciencenews.org/20001111/fob4.asp

RoboSurgeons, Their bedside manner is a tad impersonal. But the computer-assisted robotic systems finding their way into today's operating room may someday save your life, by Steve Ditlea, Technology Review, November-December 2000, pg. 74. http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov00/ditlea.htm

Say Ah!, Nanorobots the size of bacteria might one day roam people's bodies, rooting out disease, organisms and repairing damaged tissue, by Robert A. Freitas, Jr., The Sciences, July/August 2000. http://www.nyas.org/membersonly/sciences/sci0007/freitas_body.html

Books

Archimedes' Bathtub; The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, by David Perkins, W.W Norton, 2000.

At Home in the Universe, The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity,by Stuart Kauffman, Oxford, 1995.

Building Big, David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

The Cluetrain Manifesto, The End of Business as Usual, by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, Perseus, 2000.

Complexification, Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise, by John L. Casti, Harper Collins, 1994.

Dealers of Lightning, Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Michael A. Hiltzik, Harper Business, 1999.

Design Paradigms, Case Histories of Error and Judgement in Engineering, by Henry Petroski, Cambridge, 1994.

The Dreams of Dragons, An Exploration and Celebration of the Mysteries of Nature, by Lyall Watson, Destiny Books, 1987.

The End of Privacy, The Attack On Personal Rights - At Home, At Work, On-Line, and In Court, by Charles J. Sykes, St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.

Endurance; Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing, Carroll and Graf, 1959.

The Endurance, Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander, Knopf, 1998.

Genome; The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley, Perennial, 1999.

The Gift of Rivers, True Stories of Life on the Water, edited by Pamela Michael, Travelers' Tales, 2000.

How Things Work Today, edited by Michael Wright and Mikul Patel, Crown, 2000.

The Ingenuity Gap, How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Knopf, 2000.

Life's Matrix, A Biography of Water, by Philip Ball, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Living by Water, True Stories of Nature and Spirit, by Brenda Peterson, Fawcett, 1990.

The Living Company, Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment, by Arie de Gues, Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Maverick, The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, by Ricardo Semler, Warner Books, 1993.

Mistakes That Worked, 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be, by Charlotte Foltz Jones, Doubleday, 1991.

The New Way Things Work, From Levers To Lasers, Windwills to Web Sites, A Visual Guide to the World of Machines, by David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

The Pinball Effect, How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible, and Other Journeys Through Knowledge, by James Burke, Little, Brown, 1996.

Plague Time, How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments, by Paul W. Ewald, Free Press, 2000.

The Robot in the Garden, Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2000.

Robo sapiens, Evolution of a New Species, by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, MIT Press, 2000.

The Secret Knowledge of Water, Discovering the Essence of the American Desert, by Craig Childs, Sasquatch, 2000.

Swarm Intelligence, From Natural to Artificial Systems, by Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, and Guy Theraulaz, Oxford, 1999.

Secret Worlds, Photographs by Stephen Dalton, Firefly, 1999.

The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, 2000.

The Transparent Society, Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, by David Brin, Perseus, 1998.

Sponsor Session Knowledge Wall® Bibliography

Articles:

As Luck Would Have It ..., Even in high tech, smarts and hard work aren't always enough, An Introduction to a special section in the November 27, 2000, Forbes ASAP, by Erick W. Pheiffer and Michael S. Malone. Other articles from this issue include: Cyberhouse Rules, by Thomas M. Siebel, Stumbling onto the Future, by Kip Crosby, and What's Luck Got to Do With It? Everything, by Michael Wolff.

Bug-Propelled Subs, Writhing bacteria could power micro-robots round your veins, by Mark Schrope, New Scientist, November 25, 2000. http://www.newscientist.com/nlf/1125/bugpropelled.html

Brain Signals Show to Move a Robot's Arm, by Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times, November 16, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/16/science/16ROBO.html (registration required)

Decision Making as a Learning Activity, Chapter Four in The Living Company, by Arie de Geus, Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Eyes Like a Hawk, One day your optician could give you superhuman eyesight, by Eugenie Samuel, New Scientist, November 25, 2000. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns226629

First Bionic Eyes, by Victor Chase, Technology Review, November/December 2000. http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov00/benchmark1.htm

How We Went Digital Without a Strategy, by Ricardo Semler, Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2000, pg. 51.

Lamprey Cyborg Sees the Light and Responds, by S. Perkins, Science News, November 11, 2000. http://www.sciencenews.org/20001111/fob4.asp

Net vs Norm, a Lifesaving Revamp, The once-staid London International Financial Fugures and Options Exchange has transformed itself into a New Economy Leader, by David H. Freedman, Forbes ASAP, November 27, 2000. http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1127/051.html

RoboSurgeons, Their bedside manner is a tad impersonal. But the computer-assisted robotic systems finding their way into today's operating room may someday save your life, by Steve Ditlea, Technology Review, November-December 2000, pg. 74. http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov00/ditlea.htm

Say Ah!, Nanorobots the size of bacteria might one day roam people's bodies, rooting out disease, organisms and repairing damaged tissue, by Robert A. Freitas, Jr., The Sciences, July/August 2000. http://www.nyas.org/membersonly/sciences/sci0007/freitas_body.html

Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?, by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy, Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2000, pg 102.

When Doctors Make Mistakes, by Atul Gawande, The Best American Science Writing 2000, edited by James Gleick, Ecco Press, 2000.

Books:

Archimedes' Bathtub; The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, by David Perkins, W.W Norton, 2000.

The Living Company, Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment, by Arie de Gues, Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

The Robot in the Garden, Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2000.

Robo sapiens, Evolution of a New Species, by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, MIT Press, 2000.