Hierarchies vs. Networks
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Hierarchies vs. Networks
State of the NetTrieste, Italy
22nd June 2012
adriana lukas
@adriana872
distributed networks
- centre
distributed!!!
Do you see a young woman or
an old one?
insultant
- consultants
- rules
+ people - business
no change without disruption
policies
rules
processes
- rules
+ reason for rules
legacy of mistakes past
- real change
small projects loosely joined
network of peoplewith appetite for change
Hurrah!
policies
rules
processes
alternatives to hierarchies
- systems theory
processes
individual ∈ system
autonomy < 0
authority ⊢ system
fundamentally
them (speakers)us (audience)
differently organised environment->
different behaviour
heterarchies
change management
false hope
Balanced asymmetry of
networks or How to avoid
TEDx Koeln28 October 2011
organisational “physics”
challenges
networks in pyramids
- (distributed) network
+ (peer-to-peer) network
+ centre
hierarchy ➝ artificial scarcity
“soft” explanations
psychological explanations
anthropological explanations
sociological explanations
structural explanations
laws of heterarchy
≠ everyone
fundamentally flawed
boundaries
+ organisations
+ technology