The Network Organization – Moderator: Jacob Bøtter

How many people work in your company? The answer to this question will get increasingly more difficult to answer in the 21st century.

We often look to narrowly on organizations as consisting of the employees on the company payroll. But with the world connected by the Internet whole new ways of organizing and collaborating emerges.

In this break out session we will look at some of the innovative people challenging our perspectives of organizations by tapping into ‘the global brain’. We will discuss: loosely structured network organizations, global teams, distributed innovation, design-competitions and crowd-sourcing. What are the potentials and challenges of these new ways of working and organizing?