Designing Autonomous Organizations

In WG2, we will not only explore leading-edge concepts related to the Future of Organizations, we will also explore how they will actually work. At the public Forum event on August 19, we discussed the Path to Autonomous Organizations—what is possible today and what problems remain. In this session, we will examine in more detail the components that make up organizations and map them to corresponding mechanisms in multi-agent systems.

We will discuss goal-setting, planning, resource allocation, memory, coordination, decision-making, and learning. We will examine how these work within organizations and how they can be implemented in multi-agent systems. We will also discuss organizational performance and agility.