What is a virtual organisation?
One of the great myths from the Industrial Revolution is that any organisation has to grow into a bulky large bureaucratic organisation with many layers if you attract more customers.
In our current time of the Internet, fast bandwidth and smartphones, that is actually no longer the case. Why? You can grow and scale using ICT with the virtual organisation as organisational design. By implementing hybrid working, working at home and remote management for instance.
What is a virtual organisation? Here is my definition.
A virtual organisation is an organisational form characterized by the absence of a shared physical space. The organisation members work together through telecommunication. Particularly as a result of the rise of the internet, the feasibility of virtual organisational forms increased sharply.
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Formal and informal virtual organizations.
It should be noted here that it can be a formal or an informal virtual organisational form. Many companies became a virtual organisation in 1-day because of local lockdowns and everybody had to start to work from home. And think of all the informal organisational forms of virtual organisations like online communities, groups on LinkedIn, on Facebook or on other social media platforms.
Want to know more how you can design and implement a virtual organisation?
If you want to know more about how you can design and implement a virtual organisation using hybrid working, working at home and remote working for instance, please email your mobile number and the link to your LinkedIn profile using this form. Then we immediately will contact you to make an appointment for an online intake interview.
Tony de Bree
