From: "Petter Braathen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Francis Heylighen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Øyvind Vada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Meeting with Memetix company
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:47:44 +0200
Dear Francis,
let me first of all thank you again for an inspiring and interesting
meeting at your office in Brussel! We were very happy with the three
areas of possible cooperation as you have also stated eloquently in
your email to ECCO.
For a further follow up, I suggest that...
- Memetix will look at how we can collect empiric data on the
diffusion of memes in organization for further scientific analysis
- When ECCO are ready to target commercial projects, Memetix will
contribute in any way suitable
- Øyvind and I will come to Brussel again for meetings after the
summer, and we could perhaps set time for a workshop in the fall on
theoretical frameworks, empirical collect of data and application in
scientific work.
Also, if there are any activities in ECCO where you think that we
can contribute, we would be very happy to do so.
We look forward to stay in touch!
Take care!
Petter
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Petter Braathen
Memetix AS
Sandakerveien 24 C
0473 Oslo
tel: +47 67 59 15 59
Mob: +47 906 53 688
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Francis Heylighen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group" <evolcomp@listserv.vub.ac.be>
Cc: "Petter Braathen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: Meeting with Memetix company
Yesterday, I got a visit from Petter Braathen and Øyvind Vada from
Norway who founded the consultancy company Memetix,
(http://www.memetix.se). Memetix teaches organizations to function
better by applying various ideas inspired by systems theory and
memetics. They basically introduce a collection of 123 simple models
or "tools for thought" (memes) that help employees to better
conceptualize how their organization functions or could function,
allowing them to reduce the discrepancy between the present situation
and the situation as they ideally would like it to be.
There seems to be quite some similarity between the Memetix
philosophy and the one of ECCO, and therefore we were interested in
exploring possibilities for collaboration. At the moment, there seem
to be three possibly fruitful areas:
1) Memetix has started a non-profit foundation, using some of their
income and subsidies from the Norwegian and/or European institutions,
to support people from different countries who would like to make a
PhD around the general themes of the Memetix approach, but they lack
the academic framework that we can provide.
2) ECCO is interested to expand into some kind of
consultancy/training service for organizations, applying our general
ideas about the organization of complex systems to practical issues,
but we lack business experience and contacts. This is where Memetix
can help us.
3) Memetix gathers a lot of data on how the "memes" they introduce
into a company take root (or fail to do so), but doesn't really use
those data for basic research into memetics and organizational
change. This is a subject in which we are interested, so that we
could possibly analyse their data to test some of our hypotheses, to
a mutual benefit.
These ideas are still very vague at the moment since this was a first
contact, but it seems worth exploring them further...
Francis
At 22:34 +0200 4/12/05, Petter Braathen wrote:
My name is Petter Braathen, part of a partnership dedicated to
deliver systemic consulting based on memetics, systems theory,
evolutionary theory. We have offices in Oslo and Stockholm.
We have also formed an autonomous foundation, the Memetix
Foundation where we have different initiatives with research and
non-profit activities. We are in the process of setting up a
doctoral program for a number of Phd students within this
foundation. In this context we were hoping to make contact with
relevant networks and entities that have common focus and interest.
We are coming to Brussels in the beginning of May, scheduled for a
meeting with the EU on the 2nd and 3rd of may. Will it be possible
for us to have a meeting with you on either of these dates. We have
read your work with great interest, and would be very interested in
an open dialouge to explore common areas of focus.
Best regards,
Petter Braathen
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Petter Braathen
Memetix AS
Sandakerveien 24 C
0473 Oslo
tel: +47 67 59 15 59
Mob: +47 906 53 688
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IM: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
