The coronavirus pandemic creates a set of complex, unanticipated challenges for businesses and organizations. In planning a safe reopening companies must somehow maintain core functions while keeping employees, customers, and communities safe. These same challenges can be reframed as opportunities.  Innovative changes to behaviors, relationships, and structures might improve organizations in the long run.  

Presenter Scott E Page, UM-Ross, UM-Complex System, will describe some strategies for reopening and reimagining your workplace based on ideas from complex systems and network theory with the goal of eliminating or diminishing the spread of the virus while maintaining organizational function and a sense of purpose and meaning among employees.

Scott Page is the John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management at the University of Michigan. He is also the Williamson family Professor of Business Administration, professor of management and organizations, Stephen M. Ross School of Business; professor of political science, professor of complex systems, and professor of economics, LSA.   

Scott is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. In addition to his departmental appointments, Scott holds a faculty associate position at the Institute for Social Research.In addition to his academic pursuits, Scott is a highly sought after speaker and  frequently gives talks on complex systems to non academic audiences on diversity and on complexity and has consulted on projects ranging from the possibility of panic at Y2K and the demand for movies, to the economic impact of the World Cup.

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