http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:39:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:39:35 +0000 Ian Sutton http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=212 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/";Herbert Simon’s parable of the watchmakers was constructed to convey his belief that complex systems will evolve from simple systems much more rapidly if there are stable intermediate forms present in that evolutionary process than if they are not present. … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/feed/ 1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:49 +0000 Ian Sutton http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=208 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/";The parable of the two watchmakers was introduced by Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon to describe the complex relationship of subsystems and their larger wholes. There once were two watchmakers, named Hora and Tempus, who made very fine watches. The … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/feed/ 1