Anne Murray Allen, former head of IT and strategy for one of Hewlett-Packard’s most profitable divisions, and University of Oregon social network researcher Dennis Sandow teamed up for a series of studies on social network analysis. Reflecting on their research, they wrote, “As the philosophy of the physical sciences dominated the Industrial Age, the philosophy of the biological sciences is beginning to dominate the Knowledge Age. This philosophy views knowledge, people and organizations as living systems . . . [which represents a shift from] (1) focusing on parts to focusing on the whole, (2)
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