This executive brief discusses digital swarming as a new model for distributed collaboration and decision making. Digital swarming refers to how collective awareness, collaboration, and intelligence can emerge from the decentralized interactions of individuals through digital technologies. The brief is intended to promote further discussion about how this approach may impact organizations in the future.

1. Executive Brief
Digital Swarming
The Next Model for Distributed Collaboration
and Decision Making
Author
J.D. Stanley
Public Sector Practice
Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group
August 2008
Based on material originally published
from October 2007 to July 2008
Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)
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