Biomimetic Problem Solving

Biomimetic Organizations

Beth M. Duckles, PhD

Insightful, LLC

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Biomimicry

bios

life

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mimesis

imitate

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Eastgate Centre – Zimbabwe

Minister of Municipal Affairs & Agriculture building in Doha, Qatar

Arab World Institute – Paris

Could an organization adapt like a river?

What could we learn from rivers about how to adapt our organizations in the face of change?

How do we carve new paths given the needs and flow we have in the moment?

Learn about healing communities from our bodies?

Self healing plastics came from mimicking our body’s healing processes.

Are there healing principles that could be transferred to communities? Families? Organizations?

Ideas: Changing the Organizational Tree

Who are the leaves?

Who is at the trunk?

Who is at the root?

What nourishes the organization?

What is the sunlight?

Let’s play!