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Help The Process Handbook Project Matrix Of Change Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century Founded in 1991, the MIT Center for Coordination Science studied how coordination occurs in a variety of different systems, including human organizations, markets, and computer networks. The Center’s work emphasized how new information technologies are making it possible to organize businesses—and other organizations—in new ways. In order to place even more emphasis on these new possibilities, the Center was reorganized and renamed in July 2006 to be the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. This web site describes the activities of the Center for Coordination Science up until July 2006. For more recent activities, see the web site of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence We believe that a powerful basis for understanding how information technology can help people work together more effectively will result from a better understanding of the nature of coordination. Therefore, work in the center includes studies of coordination in many different forms: (1) Organizational structures and information technology - studying how people work together now and how they might do so differently with new kinds of information technology. (2) Coordination technology - designing and studying innovative computer systems that help people work together in small or large groups (e.g., "groupware", "computer-supported cooperative work", and "electronic markets"). (3) Coordination theory - developing and testing theories about how coordination can occur in a variety of systems such as human organizations, markets, and computer networks. CCS Home | Working Papers | People | Links | Site Map | Comments Copyright Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Center for Coordination Science. All rights...