Diversity can be regarded as a form of economic and social wealth because the greater the diversity, the greater the economic growth through the emergence of new niches or markets. Without tags, natural selection and self-organization would be impossible. Markets are not possible without tagging, as prices are types of tags. Changes in price tags drive market behavior. Corporate politics and positioning are all enhanced or thwarted by tagging.
Tags launch self-organizing behaviors.
Although the notion of tagging by itself may not be a startling insight, when seen in terms of how it can be used to affect aggregation, flows, diversity and the fitness of the organization, tagging becomes a critical management tool. Internal Models Internal models are simplified representations of the environment that anticipate future action or events. Stereotypes are types of internal models that simplify the complexity of the environment to anticipate specific behaviors. There is considerable debate over the extent to which self-organizing systems have explicit internal models. One view is that all representations are implicit that knowledge is embedded and embodied in a variety of actions and activities.