Emerging 21 st Century Organizational Models and Methods Victoria G. Axelrod Milano – New School 21 September 2006

Cover Stories Science, Technology and Human Behavior Both/And Outside – in - World

Start with the Big Picture STRATEG Y Shared Values Structure Systems CULTURE Organization is a Series of Conversations in Context Context = Environment (Scan)

“ Stakeholder- centric” organizations Socio-techno

Us on the Net – We are the Web Complexity

Social Networks – Organizational Networks If the topography of our organizations now looks like this map, we need to understand our “intangible”capital. From Human Capital to Peer Production and Social Capital Relationship Capital “ Intangibles”

Complexity as Metaphor

Natural and Human Simple Rules Self-Organizing Emergent Behavior

More than the sum of the parts:

Leadership Models Reflect the stage of Science and Technology or Not 50’s-60s Behavior Theories 60’s-70’s Contingency Theories Followership or Power-Influence 80’s Charismatic and Transformational Theories 90’s Collaborative Integrative Theories Heroic 00’s

Points of Connection Act Think Speak

Future Forward – What’s Next?