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.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

21st Century Organization

Jenny Ambrozek, who with colleagues Victoria Alexrod and Suzanne Roff, writes about trends and thought leaders for 21st century organization blogged this week about a Harvard Business Review survey that is open to anyone. The survey -- a project collaboration between Gary Hamel and Thomas A. Stewart -- asks for free form answers to two questions:

Twenty years into the future, what one characteristic — principle, process, practice, or structural feature — of the late twentieth-century industrial organization will appear to be the most antiquated or anachronistic?
Looking out a generation or two, what feature or characteristic — principle, process, practice, or structural feature — of leading-edge organizations will be most different from what we observe today?

The reward for answering the questions is to receive a copy of all the responses. What could be more interesting?

Jenny is one of my strongest weak ties, if that can be said. We don't see each other much since our earlier collaboration in Gennova that led to Net Work, but she always sends me signals about great events and happenings, like the launch of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence last week.

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there is a problem with the link to the Harvard survey

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