NetAge for Virtual Teams, Collaboration, and Organizational Networks

We write the books
for the Network Age

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The Virtual, Networked Organization
In the Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams (Jossey-Bass, 2008)

The Strange Beauty of Virtual Teams
Milestone Group Quarterly, October, 2007

Are Organizations Networks?
Int'l Conf on Complex Systems, Nov 2007

Selected NetAge Clients

Global companies, Governments,
NGOs, Educational institutions, Denominations, Small business, Grassroots groups

NetAge, Fall '07

"Leadership Lab" for government, sponsored by The Brookings Institution

"Tech Trends: Web Enterprise & Collaboration" sponsored by Mass Technology Leadership Council
(Slides in pdf)

Knowledge Leadership Forum, sponsored by Leadership Forum, Inc.

International Conference on Complex Systems 2007, plenary on special day about complex networks - (Slides in pdf)

3rd Annual U.S. Army Knowledge Management Conference, sponsored by Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth (Slides in pdf)

NetAge Speaking

Virtual Teams and Networks

90% People, 10% Technology

Jump-start your Global Virtual Team Program

NetAge’s Global Programs for Virtual Teams provide you with a tailored approach quickly and simply. We customize our programs to your company’s needs, design and launch pilots, then provide advice and support as needed.

principles
methodology
assessments
best practices
training materials
technology design concepts

Technology for virtual teams: Livelink virtualteams™, Virtual Teams-on-Sharepoint, Virtual Teams-on-a-Wiki.

OrgScope:
Make decisions with the real organization chart

Do you really understand comparative complexity of positions?

OrgScope provides measures and distributions of size, degree, and virtuality for each position in the organization that can be compared with budgets and performance measures. You can see which positions are under greatest stress, which jobs are most complex, which most simple, and whether people are properly equipped for the real requirements

OrgScope Map

Does it take too long to communicate within your organization?
- These maps identify shortest communication paths, providing alternatives to level-by-level cascade, whisper-down-line method
What is the impact of a proposed reorganization, large or small?
- Enables simulation of possible new designs, analysis of implications, and ability to compare alternatives using layers
- Shows how eliminating, adding, or changing jobs will impact organization locally and globally

Stadium Parable

What if you could "see" the whole organization at once: who works for whom, who reports "dotted-line," who belongs to what team, how the workflow itself progresses, where contractors fit in -- the real org chart?

So we've written The Stadium Parable (pdf), wherein you, mythical CEO, invite your whole organization to a stadium to conduct an exercise whereby everyone draws all the built-in lines of connections between their jobs (to see parable in web pages, click here).

See The Stadium in
OrgScope - Map 1b

Volvo's USE IT
Collaborate or Disappear

Interview with NetAge CEO
Jessica Lipnack