In December 2004 ISCE was renamed the ISCE Group and our main activities were split into different divisions to facilitate the management of these separate (though certainly not independent) activities. The ISCE Group comprises three divisions, namely: ISCE Research, ISCE Publishing and ISCE Events.

ISCE Research is primarily concerned with co-ordinating the research activities of the ISCE fellows to ensure that each fellow is aware of each other fellow's research to support cross-discplinary collaboration and synthesis. We also maintain a list of the research publications that emerge from this group of complexity researchers. ISCE Research also provides a legitimate academic home for freelance researchers who would like to apply for government research grants concerning the application of complexity thinking. ISCE Research also maintains a small inhouse research capability which is concerned with a range of different research issues including: the philosophical implications of complexity, the role of language in understanding organizations, coherence in organizations, the simplification of the irreducible, complexity-based tools for policy analysis.

ISCE Events endeavors to bring together complexity researchers from all over the world to discuss the profound implications of assuming complexity for our understanding of such systems. Each event has a particular mode of interaction - either conference, workshop or seminar, as well as a particular themetic focus such as policy analysis, management, philosophy, etc. ISCE Events provide an environment for both furthering the field and diffusing the concepts and tools that emerge from the complexity community.

ISCE Publishing is where much of the content from ISCE Research and ISCE Events is published for wider consumption. The heart of our publishing activities is the international journal Emergence: Complexity and Organization which is read by both academics and scholars worldwide. ISCE Publishing also publishes in collaboration with Information Age Publishing the Managing the Complex book series which debuted in July, 2005 with its first volume. Volumes 2 and 3 are both expected before the end of 2007. In January 2005 ISCE Publishing also developed the capacity to publish complexity related books inhouse. We now provide the necessary support for authors of complexity-related literature to get published in a professional and timely manner.

All of our activities benefit greatly from the involvement of the ISCE Fellows. In short, the ISCE Fellows keep the ISCE Group intellectually honest - they provide the expertise to support the development of relevant and interesting event topics, and many of them serve on the review board of E:CO as well as provide technical expertise in the reviewing of the book manuscripts we receive for consideration. Without the ISCE Fellows and the involvement of our conference attendees and readers it would be impossible for the ISCE Group to remain relevant.

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