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My thoughts on systems in health care. A little understanding of "complex adaptive systems" is essential to understanding the IOM's recommendations and to understanding our project. System: Interconnected parts. Complex: too many parts and relationships for easy prediction. Adaptive: The parts can make their own choices and these make / allow the system to adapt or evolve. Agreed upon simple rules can move a CAS toward its goals.

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Sunday, July 07, 2002

Complexity Theory & Business.

James Robertson of [Column Two] has been musing about how complexity theory relates to business and knowledge management.

He's been drawing some interesting parallels between the complexity of human behaviour in organizations, the complexity of information in evolving systems and the behaviour of such complex systems as cellular automata, genetic algorithms and neural networks.

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