Bioteams is the new discipline of adapting principles from nature's groups to improve human team performance. These principles if adopted by human teams, in both physically co-located or virtual distributed enterprises, makes them much more agile, responsive and productive.

Over the last ten years organizational and business teams have become much more distributed and complex. Despite the number of technologies available to assist team and group working, it is still exceptionally difficult to manage such teams. In some ways these technologies can actually make things worse by distracting the team members into technology experimentation rather than the hard challenge of learning to work together.

I propose that even if we fully master the technology of managing teams there will still be something major missing which will stop our teams from operating with the requisite speed and agility. We need to look to natures' most successful teams to discover the secrets of their longevity and dominance over millions of years of evolution. I will explain how they all share a small number of common natural principles, which we can apply to our organizational teams.

I call this approach `Bioteaming'.

Bioteaming is about building human teams, which operate on the basis of the principles that underpin nature's most successful teams. These teams range from single-cell organisms and social insects to forests and ecosystems.

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