ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the evolution process of convergence. Convergence is a consequence of the ingenuity and adaptability of the human being. Humans have the ability to learn and creatively transmit the knowledge gained for various practical uses. Convergence revolution is opening new opportunities to create new values and in different ways than was the case with traditional business, the new age of convergenomics. The chapter examines the evolution process of convergence. Cell phones represent convergence of functions such as internet access, music, photograph, and even telecommunications. Today, enterprise systems are an extreme form of functional convergence through unifying of organizational databases and reporting systems. Strategic alliances and joint ventures with suppliers, component assemblers, distributors, and even competitors are good examples of organizational convergence. The convergence of biological and artificial systems represents the highest level of convergence. In the world of convergenomics, opportunities for strategic innovation are constrained only by human imagination and creativity.