The Real Enterprise 2.0 – The Chaord
by Rob Paterson
I have just returned for working in Alaska with the hub station of a small network of stations – APTN.
They have the key challenge of having one player at the centre. The result is that all are in a stressful competition. Resource levels are low for all and all wish that the others would do more.
My advice has been to think about how they might move to a Chaord where, instead of one station being in the centre, that they have a small unit, like Visa like the PEI BioAllince Inc. to act on behalf of all.
The slide show is my best attempt – I am no graphic designer – to out the problem out in a visual way and to show how a Chaordic alternative might look and work.
My sense is that such a design could work regionally for all states and all stations and that maybe a larger version might act for all of Public Media in the US.
For right now NPR for radio – is sort of in this central spot – serving the system but also a player. This is how I see Charordic alternative.
But this is not confined to public radio or TV – I see this as a universal idea – just as Henry Ford created the ideal organization for the industrial era – so Dee Hock has created the organization for our own time. Just as the Ford model became the norm for all things – so will the Chaord.
This is how to get more for less. This is what I believe Enterprise 2.0 will be.
In the last post in this series I will give you a taste how how Rory is seeing how this could change agriculture. How we might shift from a multitude of atomised serfs, called farmers, whose value has been captured by a handful of distributors.
The opportunities seem limitless – how about a school board organized like this? What might happen then? How about health in a region organized like this? What about government itself?
