Whether you rent in Amsterdam, London or Paris, the process is more ad hoc than reserving a hotel room.

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However, when major disasters happen, the process of learning from them is often ad hoc.

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The answer is social computing, which views a company not as a static org chart and a number of interconnected process flows but rather as a social network with ad-hoc and ever changing relationships and interactions.

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