What Is a Network?
Put on Your Network Glasses: They're Everywhere

NODES (people, positions, teams, organizations
+ LINKS (purpose, authority, knowledge, friendship)
= NETWORKS

Networks foster
independence with interdependence

Networks are as big as
cross-enterprise/cross-industry/cross-sector alliances
working on global issues
and as small as
virtual teams of two

All organizations are networks
Network Dictionary
Virtual team
Small number of people who depend on one another to do accomplish their goals while working across boundaries of space, time, organization, culture, language, discipline or just about anything else. Can be of short duration or long-lived.
Teamnets
Networks of teams with shared purpose that work together across, and sometimes outside, the enterprise. Can be virtual or collocated.
Organization networks
Large-scale human structures, including hierarchies and bureaucracies, with which considerable numbers of people affiliate (companies, non-profits, governments, academic institutions, denominations, NGOS).
Networks of organizations
Large numbers of organizations that work together in pursuit of common interests
Communities of practice
People who join together to learn and exchange information related to their “practices,” their areas of expertise and interest
Social networks
People connecting with others on basis of personal relationships