There's an interesting book about 5 years old that addresses this issue: "It's Alive - The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business", by Stan davis and Christopher Meyer.

And of course there are many many people and approaches to "change" now taking cues from natural processes and self-organizing systems. I noticed somewhere recently that one of the iconic figures of the brief moment in the sun had by the socio-technical systems" school, William Pasmore, has come out with a new book sometime in the last several years.

No doubt this will be an area of ongoing enquiry for the rest of yours and my working life, Harold ;-)