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- From Corporations to Cyberorganisms (O'Hara-Deveraux &
Johansen)
- "The new cyberspace systems will greatly accelerate ongoing changes
in corporate structures. The hierarchical, place-based corporation as we
know it may be headed for the ash heap of history, and it is likely to
be replaced by something more weblike and based on ecological rather than
mechanistic models."
- "Organizations in cyberspace will be built on explicitly ecological models, and words like symbiosis will become the executive buzzwords of the turn of the century. These organizations will model themselves on that of organisms, puzzling over issues like coordination among "nodes" (either teams or individuals), definition of optimal web structures, and means of "grafting" effectively onto networks of external partners."
(GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time, by Mary O'Hara-Deveraux & Robert Johansen) - "Organizations in cyberspace will be built on explicitly ecological models, and words like symbiosis will become the executive buzzwords of the turn of the century. These organizations will model themselves on that of organisms, puzzling over issues like coordination among "nodes" (either teams or individuals), definition of optimal web structures, and means of "grafting" effectively onto networks of external partners."
- The Death of Management (O'Hara-Deveraux & Johansen)
- "The very term management may be an early casualty of this new
way of organizational thinking. Management implies the ability to see,
comprehend, and control the full extent of one's organization - which will
be impossible in full-fledged cyberorganizations. p.405
The organizations of the future won't be companies but organic entities defined above all by whom they cooperate with. Perhaps the term management will disappear, a quaint relic from the age of Taylorism unable to mutate to fit in a new cyberworld. At least, the idea of management as control will disappear in the clouds of uncertainty."
(GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time, by Mary O'Hara-Deveraux & Robert Johansen) - Context Surfing (O'Hara-Deveraux &
Johansen)
- "New kinds of team skills such as "context surfing" -
the ability to spin quickly through multiple points of reference in order
to find the one most appropriate to the team's needs at a particular moment
and then deliver that perspective back to the group. Will "perspective
spinning" become a key business skill?"
(GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time, by Mary O'Hara-Deveraux & Robert Johansen)
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