Swarm Organisation

Preface – 9

1. Introduction – 15

Part 1: The 21st century challenge – 13
2. What is bothering modern organisations? – 17
2.1 The consequences of creating ‘a better world’ – 18
2.2 The challenges of the ‘new economy’ – 25
2.3 What other future developments can we expect? – 35
2.4 The human factor – 38

3. Key realisations – 41
3.1 Decisive subjects – 41
3.2 The main cause – 46

4. The need for value creation – 49
4.1 Value creation leads to justifi ed existence – 49
4.2 But what actually is Value? – 51
4.3 How do organisations know they create value? – 53
4.4 What if we don’t create value? – 54

5. Symptoms – 57
5.1 The 4 symptoms – 57
5.2 More about the symptoms – 62

6. How are we doing? – 73
6.1 The world around us – 73
6.2 Are we anywhere near to solving this? – 80
6.3 What if we don’t – 81

7. Connecting the dots – 83

Part 2: The road to swarm organisation
8. It’s all about behaviour – 89
8.1 What is behaviour and where does it originate from – 89
8.2 What behaviour do we need? – 93
9. Swarm Behaviour: Nature works holographic – 97
9.1 Why do animals swarm? – 97
9.2 Swarm observations – 101
9.3 What can we learn from this? – 104
9.4 Swarm Behaviour, the basic principles – 106
9.5 Is swarm behaviour an answer? – 107

10. Swarm Organisation – 109
10.1 How to create a ‘Human Swarm’? – 111
10.2 The Swarm Solution. An integrated approach – 114
10.3 Adaptive Culture Capacity – 123
10.4 Connective Capacity – 132
10.5 Innovative Capacity – 141
10.6 The Swarm Scan – 150

11. What the Swarm Solution means to those that adopt it – 153
11.1 What the Swarm Solution can bring – 154
11.2 Assumptions on where the Swarm Solution will work well – 157
11.3 Assumptions on when the Swarm Solution will not work – 160
11.4 Swarm Strategies – 162

Epilogue – 169
Credits – 173