Biology of Business

Behavior

Flocking Coordination

By Alex Denne

The mechanisms by which groups of animals achieve coordinated movement without central control, producing emergent collective patterns.

Used in the Books

This term appears in 1 chapter:

Communication and Signaling Coordinated Movement

"...hms converge, and communication latencies make real-time central control impractical. Instead, Zomato uses distributed, local optimization resembling flocking coordination. Local Assignment Rules: 1. Separation (Don't overload riders): Riders accept orders based on current load and capacity."

Biological Context

Starling murmurations, fish schools, and locust swarms emerge from simple rules: maintain spacing, align with neighbors, move toward the group center. These rules produce complex, adaptive group behavior without any individual controlling the whole.

Business Application

Organizational flocking: how teams coordinate without micromanagement. Shared principles and local information can produce aligned action without centralized control.

Related Terms

Swarm Intelligence Emergence

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