Power to the Edge: Command and Control in the Information Age
Publication date:
2003-06-01 We've moved from an industrial to an information age where context rich information can be shared and communicated "to the edge" of an organization, thereby shaking up traditional hierarchies -- for both good and bad.
- Decentralization is important when designing systems that allow people at every level of an organization to create and share knowledge. It's either very costly and perhaps impossible to predict who may be able to help organize and contribute to knowledge.
- "...allowing information to be recombined in untold ways and by allowing individuals to interact in unplanned ways creates understandings and options not previously possible."