BioInspired! So What? Now What!

All,

Amongst all the other great stuff the Network For Business Sustainability do, two recent posts I thought would be of interest to the Bioinspired community, because for the first time to my knowledge, they are connecting Biomimicry and Biomimetic principles to organizational design to creating conditions for sustainability outcomes to emerge.

As many of you know my interest is Strongly Sustainable Organizational Design - and my research concerns designing tools to help people achieve higher quality designs (more reliable, consistent, effective) while doing so more efficiently (ask me if you want to know more)

The Network For Business Sustainability hosted / funed by Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University, London Ontario: http://nbs.net is one of the key resources for Business / Organization Sustainability is

Not had time to look into the following articles in detail yet... but wanted to ask the community:

- Anyone know of this work and its reputation?

- Anyone know of anything similar others are working on?

See:

http://nbs.net/lessons-from-the-environment-help-firms-evolve/

http://nbs.net/transforming-towards-the-firm-of-the-future/

 Both of these pieces were written by Giles Hitchins a management consultant whose firm

" Biomimicry for Creative Innovation (BCI), a collaboration of business transformation specialists which I helped co-found, has developed a set of business principles for the firm of the future originating from the life principles developed by the Biomimicry Institute in the US. The principles are aimed at creating conditions in business conducive to collaboration, adaptability, creativity, local attunement, multifunctionality and responsiveness; hence, enhancing the evolution of organizations from rigid, tightly managed hierarchies to dynamic living organizations which thrive and flourish within ever-changing business, socio-economic and environmental conditions.

Organizations that understand how to embed these principles from nature into their products, processes, policies and practices create greater abundance for themselves and their business ecosystems in times of rapid change; flourishing rather than perishing in volatile conditions. Organizations inspired by nature are resilient, optimizing, adaptive, systems-based, values-based and life-supporting."

Cheers

Antony