Business Network Annual Report

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• Santa Fe Institute
• Suzanne Dulle
• Santa Fe, NM
• November 3, 2000

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Santa Fe Institute - Beginnings

• Founders vision.
• Creating the sciences of the 21st century

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Personal advocates

• Bill Miller - Legg Mason
• SFI Trustee
• Michael Mauboussin - CSFB
• SFI Trustee, New Economy Forum
• Alex Zauderer - Merrill Lynch
• Seminar Series
• Marc Millier - Intel
• Spearheaded funding of network dynamics project

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Personal advocates (cont.)

• Roger Burkhart - John Deere
• SWARM
• Richard Foster - McKinsey
• SFI Trustee
• Henry Lichstein - Citigroup
• SFI Trustee
• David Weinberger - UBS Warburg
• SFI Trustee
• David Gregg - Unilever

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Public Policy

• Rand Workshop on Complexity Public Policy
• Complex Systems and Policy Analysis New Tools
  for a New Millennium
• Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI
• World Bank Project - focus on complex systems
  approaches to global development, global
  cooperation and management interactions

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Complexity in Educational Literature

• Chaos Prevailing on Every Continent Towards a
  New Theory of Decentralized Decision-Making in
  Complex Systems - David Post David Johnson
  (Chicago Kent Law Review)
• How Long is the Coastline of the Law? Thoughts
  on the Fractal Nature of Legal Systems - David
  Post Michael Eisen (The Journal of Legal
  Studies, the University of Chicago Law School)
• The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of
  Economics - Ed., David Colander

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Business Press

• Harnessing Complexity, Robert Axelrod Michael
  Cohen
• The Biology of Business, Ed., John Clippinger
• Latticework - The New Investing, Robert Hagstrom
• Etc..

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Agent-based Modeling in Education

• Argonne National Labs
• Proposed educational program, w/ University of
  Michigan
• SWARM Development Corporation - New phase of
  development
• RenMin University, Beijing
• Project to translate SWARM to Chinese
• Kozo Keikaku Engineering
• MITI sponsored project - conversion of SWARM to
  Japanese

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Centers for study of complexity

• Felix Paul Reed-Tsochas - Oxford University
• Creation of Institute of Advanced Studies
  focused on network theory and e-commerce, modeled
  after SFI, (including BusNet model)
• Alberto Rojo - University of Michigan
• Center for Complex Systems, Bariloche,
  Argentina (including BusNet model)

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Regional Business Development

• Info-Mesa
• Wired Magazine, June 2000
• 12 computer-powered industries located in Santa
  Fe (four with direct links to SFI)
• Complexica, Prediction Company, Bios Group,
  Swarm.com
• Santa Fe now represents the only sizable
  concentration of informatics firms in the U.S.
  (Ed Regis)

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• Rewarding
• Study of complex systems has begun to be embraced
  as a main-stream, important scientific concept!
• Challenging..
• How can we continually recreate our vision!

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Membership

• Reduction in consulting companies (Coopers
  Lybrand, Andersen Consulting, VHA, Boston
  Consulting).
• and increase in financial management and
  internet companies(Abernathy, WBS Warburg,
  Davis, eBay, AOL, Merrill Lynch, Lazard, Janus
  Capital Group, Zefer, CommerceNet, Trilogy)
• Total number of active members - 50

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SFI Funding

• 6M annual operating budget
• Private foundations, corporations, academic
  institutions - 39
• U.S. government agencies - 24
• Business Network - 24
• Individual supporters - 13

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Business Network Support

• Contributions go to support SFIs core research
• Additional funding from
• McKinsey Company
• Intel
• Cisco Systems
• Capital Foundation
• Office of Naval Research (pending)

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Years Activities and Future Events
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Visits to SFI

• Sixteen member organizations made visits
• (Also ten prospective members)
• Dialogue is replacing former dynamic of
  teacher/student
• Support from researcher community

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Participation in Meetings,Workshops Educational
Programs

• Tutorial meeting, Biology - Whats New at SFI?
  (July, 2000)
• Complex Systems Summer School
• (2001 - Santa Fe and Budapest)
• SFI research workshops

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2001 Business Network Topical Meeting

• Network Dynamics
• March 22-23

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Additional interactions

• SFI Director visits to members (in conjunction
  with SFI researchers)
• Members engage SFI researchers in consulting
  meetings

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Research Visits, Networking Opportunities

• Collaborative research visits to SFI
• New York Complexity Symposia (NYCS)

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International Networking Opportunities

• Tutorial on Complexity and Agent Based
  Modeling, Tokyo, Japan (January, 2000)
• European Business Network Meeting, London, UK
  (February 15, 2001)

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SFIs International Program

• International workshops scientific meetings
• Fellowships - (China, India, FSU)
• Expanded participation in SFIs educational
  programs
• Future opportunities for interactions with
  extended global business community

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In conclusion..

• Because of you .SFI is able to continue its
  research activities
• Through you . SFIs work continues to grow and
  become known
• Thank you.!

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