This wiki started November 2006 to publish resources related to a presentation to Dr. Richard Wexler's Milano, New School class on School Class by Jenny Ambrozek.

This update is to provide resources for the April 26, 2007 group.

SOURCES

ARTICLES

i. Gulati & Kletter Relational Architecture of High Performing Organizations California Management Review Spring 2005

ii. Seely Brown & Solomon Gray People are the Company- 1995 in http://www.fastcompany.com/online/01/people.html

iii. Krackhardt's seminal article Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart HBR 1993 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/krack/documents/pubs/1993/1993%20Informal%20Networks.pdf


TIMELY READING

The latest Forbes, with its special report on Networks: http://c21org.typepad.com/21st_century_organization/2007/04/networkminds_fo.html

OTHER
Participatory Media: Challenge to Control in Organizations

CLASS THEMES

Organizational Assessment & Diagnosis in a Networked World:

Emerging Disciplines and Measurements

How do we understand organizations as complex networks and how value is created through relationships?

How do we change the ways people participate to change organizations to improve value creation?

**1. Overview of Networked Organizations & Emerging Measurement Techniques**-
- Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)
- Value Networks

2. Personal Network Activity
- Understanding ONA essentials

3. Interaction, Sharing & Knowledge Creation
- Live social tagging exercise

4. Organizational Assessment Challenges-
Valuing Participation

Please use this space to add reflections, questions and share resources you find on the topic.