Tactics to Make Your Business a Networked Organization, Part 2

Before you do so, begin to visualize the organization as a network. The components are:

• the roles individuals play (not the job titles they hold);
• the processes that link them together as they collaborate to complete deliverables;
• the knowledge they share and/or create to complete the deliverable; and
• the deliverable itself — i.e., the value they're collaboratively creating.

Organizational charts still can be useful as resourcing tools for the new roles of people working with technology in a value network. Their purpose should be rethought to support the necessary roles and interactions that create value.