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Hierarchies vs. Networks

      State of the Net
          Trieste, Italy
         22nd June 2012
adriana lukas

@adriana872
distributed networks
- centre
distributed!!!
Do you see a
young woman or
  an old one?
insultant
- consultants
- rules
+ people
- business
no change without
    disruption
policies
rules
processes
- rules
+ reason for rules
legacy of mistakes past
- real change
small projects
loosely joined
network of people
with appetite for change
Hurrah!
policies
rules
processes
alternatives to hierarchies
- systems theory
processes
individual ∈ system
autonomy < 0
authority ⊢ system
fundamentally
them (speakers)
 us (audience)
differently organised
   environment->
 different behaviour
heterarchies
change management
false hope
Balanced
 asymmetry of
   networks
or How to avoid
      TEDx Koeln
    28 October 2011
organisational “physics”
challenges
networks in pyramids
- (distributed) network
+ (peer-to-peer) network
+ centre
hierarchy ➝ artificial scarcity
“soft” explanations
psychological explanations
anthropological
 explanations
sociological explanations
structural explanations
laws of heterarchy
≠ everyone
fundamentally flawed
boundaries
+ organisations
+ technology
Thank you

heterarchyrules@gmail.com

  bit.ly/tedxheterarchy
Hierarchies vs. Networks