What is a networked organization?
A networked organization is a decentralized organizational structure, one of the so-called ‘7 elements of organization’ of your exis ting or new organizational model at the heart of your AI-powered company that operates as a network of interconnected, autonomous individuals including virtual solopreneurs and online freelancers and any type of large of smalll organization.
Instead of a traditional hierarchical structure or functional structure, it emphasizes collaboration, flexibility, and the sharing of relevant knowledge, experience of people and material and immaterial assets between all the participants in the networked organization.
Key characteristics of a networked organization include:
- Decentralization: Authority and decision-making are distributed across the network, rather than concentrated at the top.
- Interconnectivity: The people and organzations are connected through formal or informal relationships, allowing for effective and efficient communication and collaboration.
- Autonomy: Each organization has a degree of independence, responsible for its own operations and performance.
- Shared goals: Despite their autonomy, the people & organizations work towards common objectives, typically related to the overall success of the networked organization.
- Flexibility: The network structure allows for rapid adaptation to changing external events and developments and opportunities.
Examples of networked organizations include:
- Virtual organizations.
- Virtual teams.
- Virtual tribes.
- Virtual Business Ecosystems.
- AI-powered tribes.
- AI-tribes.
In essence, networked organizations are designed to be more flexible, responsive, and innovative in any way than traditional large organizations with their hierarchical structures and silos. They are particularly well-suited for complex fast changing environments including since the democratization of AI where fast flexibility and collaboration are essential to survive and thrive the online shakeout as online entrepreneur, large corporate or SME for instance.
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Formal and informal virtual organizations.
It should be noted here that it can be a formal or an informal networked organization structures. Many companies became a virtual organization in 1-day because of local lockdowns and everybody had to start to work from home or remotely somewhere else.
And think of all the informal organizational forms of networked organizations like virtual tribes, online communities and groups on LinkedIn, on Facebook or on other social media platforms.
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