Networked Organizations

Peters & Waterman In Search of Excellence saw the advantages of ‘simultaneously loose-tight properties’ or organisations as coalitions of individuals and belief systems, rather than machine bureaucracies or tightly controlled hierarchies, as a key to business success.

Coalitions of individuals rather than bureaucracies. Honeycomb org structure N-Form - combined with new technology - Hyperarches and not hierarchies - but be wary that there can be group-think and a barrier to change