Tactics to Make Your Business a Networked Organization, Part 2

In part 2 of this multipart series on the steps businesses must take to become networked organizations, we look at four tips to consider when tackling the optimization of your value networks.

(For part 1, click here.)

1. Visualize and organize the enterprise as a network, not an organization chart. In today’s organizations, you're compelled to work with the starting point of the organization chart. It’s all lines and boxes, hierarchies, reporting relationships, and vertical accountabilities and rigidities. It’s a problem — a barrier to network thinking. The first instinct is to get rid of it.