[New-imc] Fwd: network organisation

[Sheri]

hey friends,
a while back when i started digging into the revamp of the new imc 
page, i put together alot of new text that is just waiting to be 
incorporated.  i also had chrisb from imc la write up some language 
about why networks are important and what they are.  this latest 
little tidbit from matthew in imc sydney is also very useful and 
great language for how to picture a network and a successful and 
productive network.  thought we could incorporate some of this into 
the new imc page (and probably elsewhere).
ciao
sheri

>Delivered-To: sheri at speakeasy.org
>Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 00:34:58 +1000 (EST)
>From: Matthew Arnison <matthewa at physics.usyd.edu.au>
>X-X-Sender:  <maffew at celeste.dyndns.org>
>To: toni <tony at irational.org>, Sheri Herndon <sheri at speakeasy.org>
>Subject: network organisation
>
>http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/ronfeldt/index.html
>
>one to sit and read in a quiet corner and chew over.
>
>from the netwar people.
>
>a highlight:
>
>the design and performance of such networks depend on what happens across
>five levels of analysis (which are also levels of practice) [25]:
>
>Organizational level - its organizational design
>Narrative level - the story being told
>Doctrinal level - the collaborative strategies and methods
>Technological level - the information systems in use
>Social level - the personal ties that assure loyalty and trust
>
>The strength of a network, perhaps especially the all-channel design,
>depends on its functioning well across all five levels. The strongest
>networks will be those in which the organizational design is sustained by
>a winning story and a well-defined doctrine, and in which all this is
>layered atop advanced communications systems and rests on strong personal
>and social ties at the base. Each level, and the overall design, may
>benefit from redundancy and diversity. Each level's characteristics are
>likely to affect those of the other levels.
>
>[please fwd if you feel its useful]


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