Existing management schemes cannot adapt fast enough. People in a city hit by a snowstorm still find food. There is no one big plan that says what has to happen in that event. The Internet is an example of a self-organizing system. An organization is a life form.
Organizations are complex adaptive systems, they have to react to environment and change.
Organizations that peak get complacent. At the edge of chaos, innovation and creativity take place. The network is emerging as the signature form of organization in the Information Age, just as bureaucracy stamped the Industrial Age, hierarchy controlled the Agricultural Era and the small group roamed in the Nomadic Era. Nomadic societies were comprised of small groups and used spoken communications, Agricultural societies were hierarchical, and used written communication, Industrial times saw bureaucracy formed and printed communication, Information age uses networks and electronic communications. Chaos theory is the science of complexity, instability and disorder.