Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness

Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness
Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.

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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Conductive Organizations

I had the pleasure last year of working with Hubert Saint-Onge and one of my clients. Hubert is known to many as one of the gurus of knowledge management, and particularly for his work in communities of practice. I have used his models extensively and always learn from hearing and speaking with him. His latest book (with Charles Armstrong), The Conductive Organization, has a web site.

One of the assertions at the heart of this new work leads to the heart of what networking is all about: Central to the highly conductive organization is a continuous flow of knowledge from the customer to the organization, where strategy, culture, structures and systems are all calibrated to customer needs.

I am thinking that networks sometimes look like rivers.

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