Large bureaucratic organizations, and the people who work in them, are facing rapid and substantial changes which require new understandings, skills, and capabilities for the
network-centric environment. In some of the early literature, the term ‘
network-centric’ only referred to the connectivity achieved through technological
networks, in particular the Internet and Web-enabled applications. However its connotation has expanded as ICT
networks and applications are transforming the ways in which people gather, share and process information and knowledge, and consequently, on the ways they make decisions to act. This is having an impact in organizations: on their structures, their ways of working, on organizational learning, as well as on the ways people collaborate and form social
networks. Many organizations are now hybrids of a traditional hierarchy, with a limited command and control structure, and a
network-centric configuration allowing the emergence of self-directed groups. The domain of
network-centrism now encompasses the organizational, social and cultural as well as the technical aspects of working in these changing, hybrid environments.
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