In thinking about this question  over the last few years, I started to notice that a number of subtle, non-intuitive concepts that I learned many years ago as a physics student seem to apply to the world of big data and information-based predictions in highly complex systems.  Big Data is one of the hottest topics out there.  light, sound. MORE >>

The primary challenge emerging out of the CEO conversations was complexity - the fact that CEOs now operate in a world that is substantially more volatile, uncertain and complex.  They grew up in a complex world.  Sixty percent of CEOs viewed the new economic environment as significantly more complex than before.  MORE >>

When Bayer’s Material Sciences Division  decided to become more collaborative , they realized that the main challenge in promoting knowledge-sharing across organizational boundaries is culture. Understanding the difference between complication and complexity is extremely important in today’s workplace. MORE >>

The classic project management alone is less and less able to manage complex, uncertain, knowledge-based processes. — Managing in Complexity. With increasing requirements for complex and creative work we need new models to get things done. This can be fostered in a culture of perpetual Beta. Books complexity Work MORE >>

By the late 1980s, these complex and expensive technologies ran out of gas.  One of their most compelling conclusions is that with exascale computing, we are reaching a tipping point in predictive science , an area with potentially major implications across a whole range of new, massively complex problems.  New technologies are needed. MORE >>