One hundred and ninety-nine years after Charles Darwin was born, and 149 years after he published On the Origin of Species, some scientists say that the theory of evolution is due for a revision. Not ...

The dominant discourse in research, management and teaching is one that may loosely be characterised as that of prediction and control. The objective of research is to identify causal correlations ...

Pick a pen up off of your desk, hold it about a foot above the flat surface, and then let it drop. It hits the surface, and despite the fact that quantum mechanics suggest that there is a (very) small ...

Stellenbosch University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Universities are complex, dynamic organisations which must adapt in ways that aren’t always planned or predicted. For ...

APICS, and Michigan State University (MSU), recently announced findings from their latest report, “Managing the Complexity Paradigm.” The new report addresses the increased complexity of today's ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. Back in 2012, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on facial recognition and privacy, then-Senator ...

Complexity in Health Care: A Paradigm shift for Clinical Practice (Springer 2023) by Steven A. Frankel, Steven D. Thurber, and James A. Bourgeois offers a healthy departure from standard approaches to ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. By some accounts, the western world is experiencing a backlash against the same technologies which have ...

There are times when a centralized data source may not always be a good idea. In a paper published in May 2019, Zhamak Dehghani (pictured), director of Next Tech Incubation NA at ThoughtWorks Inc., ...