NICO Complexity in Action Network
Involvement Opportunities
Your organization can become involved in the NICO's Complexity in Action Network (CANet) through multiple forms of engagement.
Customized Education
Organizations engage with CANet through customized education offerings in the form of executive education courses, workshops, case studies and tailored lectures. Pricing varies depending on the project and can be hosted either at Northwestern University or at the organization’s site. Past engagements have ranged from one-time group events to multiple-year cross-division education module design.
Research Collaboration
Organizations can sponsor or co-sponsor research engagements. You can benefit from research conducted at your own organization or from special access to research results done outside their organization. Also, industrial fellows can spend concentrated time working with NICO research teams in residence at NICO or in remote locations to gain depth in complexity science research competencies. You may also engage NICO affiliated graduate students in internships to be arranged and supervised through CANet. Pricing varies depending on the project and types of collaborative relationships.
Individualized CANet
Outside of network activities mentioned above, CANet makes connections to faculty as consultants and advisors for problems that require individualized research, customized tool or application development. Pricing varies depending on the project and types of collaborative relationships.
CANet Membership
Organizations apply to become a part of the network through annual membership. Benefits of membership include:
- Preferred member relationship status for receiving customized education, research collaborations, or individualized research consulting or advisor relationships with NICO faculty and affiliates.
- Annual Academic Research Conference
- Innovation Labs
- Members & faculty innovating around issues specific to member interest, using a complexity lens
- Co-development of translation tools for member use
- Applied Publications (opportunity to author)
- Knowledge Brokering through translations of latest academic research on complexity and network theory
Tapping the Power of Interdisciplinary Relationships
By connecting to an interdisciplinary network, members better understand common problems across a variety of contexts.
Relationships within the network are facilitated through:
- Networking opportunities
- Sharing of business cases
- Co-Design of offerings & tools
- Conversations to sharpen translation of ideas to practice and practice to ideas
Benefits of these relationships include:
- Networking with a community of early adopters and innovators
- Diverse approaches to common problems
- Common language, methods, and tools for diverse applications
- Insights for framing problems in new ways
The Network Experience
- Members value trust within the network. It is understood that fellow members are there to learn, to innovate and to collaborate, not to sell or compete.
- Members expect to contribute to the network as part of a community of innovators, not just to consume benefits.
- Members continually make an effort to keep building the network and extending the ties across their organizations, industries, and practice communities
- CANet leadership commits itself to being innovative, user friendly, trustworthy, and easy to work with
CANet Memberships since 2005
Abbott Labs
American College of Chest Physicians
Emerja
ExxonMobil
Integrated Marketing Consulting, Latin America
Kraft
Merck
PFC Energy
Intel
Raytheon
StrategyScape
State Farm
Thompson Reuters
Westlaw
State Farm
Intel
The annual cost of membership is $30,000. A limited number of reduced fee memberships are available for small organizations.
To learn more about NICO memberships and Benefits, please contact the Co-Directors of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) | 600 Chambers Hall |
Brian Uzzi
Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership
Kellogg School of Management | 2001 Sheridan Road | Evanston, IL 60208
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Science | McCormick School of Enginnering
Professor of Sociology | Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences
Kevin Lynch
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
Professor and Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science |
