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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” If it can fit on an org chart, it’s not a network.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. Like Southwest, JetBlue focuses on people over planes, with a mission to “bring humanity back to air travel.” ” Other carriers fly airplanes that carry people.

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The Most Common Ways You Could Get Tricked into Compromising Company Data

Harvard Business Review

Yet, there are some relatively easy ways to protect the organization from the tricks commonly used by the outsider to compromise the insider: Trick #1 – Phishing via Convincing Emails. As an email travels from a client through a server to a recipient, there are potential network vulnerabilities all along its path.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

As an example, last summer I rented a car to travel around Great Britain. I often hear executives talk about being “more networked,” but what they really mean is collaborating across the silos. To truly become a networked organization, you need decision principles that create both alignment and autonomy.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. NASA has had to become more outward-looking and network-oriented to develop and acquire the technologies it needs.