Network. It's a noun and a verb, the same word in Japanese and French, wang luo in Mandarin. We've spent the past 25 years talking with people who build networks in their organizations and networks out to the larger world around them.
Network is the organization of choice of our time and the activity of choice to get things done.
In our view, networks don't replace bureaucracies and hierarchies. They include them--and they map them.
Our methods and technology encourage, deepen, and sustain networked organizations. For example:
When messages slow in one new organization, NetAge OrgScope analysis found a way to : shrink communication from seven relays to one, radically speeding up communication.
Two years after its launch, a European energy company wants to hold a company-wide brainstorming about its employee survey. NetAge co-designs, facilitates, and analyzes the first "Jam" held outside IBM (with IBM's support). The three-day, eight-country, online conversation involves people from the top of the organization to the bottom.
A large national government takes on reinvention as a key priority and wants its participants to maintain connection into the future. Senior leaders choose NetAge to design the kickoff event and launch the network, still in operation fifteen years later.
OrgScope for the complex organization
NetAge OrgScope maps the many networks in your organization, the frame for all the working units that criss-cross it. OrgScope maps the bureaucratic terrain by position, organization, location and reveals valuable intelligence about your enterprise otherwise invisible.
Render your organization transparent with OrgScope. Begin with your organization chart, then add layers and layers of networks.
