It is the quintessential networked corporation, whose value proposition lies not in physical assets, particular products or even specific skills, but in the quality of its relationships.
In the chapter entitled "Power in the Balance," Gore defends the thesis that the nation-state, while still the dominant form of political organization, is losing authority and power to "multinational corporations, networked entrepreneurs and billions of individuals in the global middle class".
"The cutting edge of innovation is on the consumer side — digital technologies for consumption activity, play, entertainment and social-networked communication — and not in corporations anymore," observed Timothy F. Bresnahan, an economist at Stanford.
When a corporation makes a networked, user-friendly version of a service, isn't that curtains for the Open Source alternatives?
The danger, in other words, is that we move from an internet designed for people to a networked tailored only to the needs of corporations.
[C4.] A Search for a Cure to Smallpox Responding to worries that smallpox could become a weapon, a group of research universities and corporations and the Defense Department are announcing a networked computer project intended to accelerate the search for a cure for smallpox.
We are evolving toward the age of networked enterprise, in which the traditional hierarchies of the corporation will be supplanted by self-organizing systems collaborating on digital platforms.
We are evolving toward an age of networked enterprises, in which the traditional hierarchies of the corporation will be supplanted by self-organizing systems collaborating on digital platforms.
The traditional multinational company, Mr. Palmisano explained during an interview at I.B.M's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., was a collection of local fiefs, while networked teams will be the hallmark of the global corporation of the future.
At the same time, he said, technological advances put multinational corporations on the same footing as small, socially networked businesses.
Which led me to think about an analogous strategy in understanding digital technology and addressing the problems posed by the tech corporations that are now running amok in our networked world.
