More Evidence of Emerging “Wirearchy” ….

….  from an expert – Stowe Boyd.

It’s not just me that believes that distributing information and knowledge throughout networks will lead to major structural changes in the way organizations are designed and the ways work will get done.

From Stowe’s article on Social Tools in Darwin magazine:

 “We will see the transition to blog networks — in all their messiness — from which collaborating networks will surface the next set of tasks to be performed through emergent decision making.

Unlike “project think,” where the first step is to identify exactly who is going to do what and by when for the entire duration of the project, expect to see a less exact and more dispersed approach to project management.

Just as we have seen the appearance of blog features like “trackback” to represent crossblog comments, we will similarly see crossblog linkages at a coordinative level appearing in enterprise-oriented blog technologies. These are likely to support features like requesting (or tasking) someone to take on a specific project role or activity, and the subsequent backlinking of the task’s state of completion.


In Conclusion (For the Moment)

 These examples are a grab bag, a random sample of the sorts of convergence that has already started to emerge or may soon do so. Some of the examples may only represent a small feature to be added to existing technologies, while others (most, I bet) denote a basic shift in the way that that we will communicate, coordinate or collaborate.

 Most so-called collaboration technologies are not very socialized today, and do not really support community: generally, they are geared to a hierarchical notion of divisions, departments and teams.

But how we organize socially is something else altogether. We are not bivouacked into fixed groups, like the Roman Legion, but simultaneously in many social circles at once.

 And the tools that we will use to make sense of the world must be far more socialized than today’s solutions, and only those tools that make that transition will be on tomorrow’s desktop.