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Jim Herbsleb's Home Page
New organizational forms are breaking down traditional barriers and
moving us toward a post-bureaucratic world. Flattened
hierarchies, permable organizational boundaries, network organizations,
and continuous adaptation are driving innovation. From open
source ecologies to wikipedia to globally-distributed product
development, technology provides unprecedented opportunities to connect
and create.
All we need to do is to figure out how to make all this work.
With new opportunities come new problems, often more wicked
than
the old. When will network organizations end in chaos rather
than creativity?
How are diverse ideas generated by far-flung communities
integrated so we have a coherent
result in the end? How can the participants even understand
what
is going on and who is doing what? How do decisions get made?
These are the kinds of questions that drive my research group.
We
are an interdisciplinary collection of graduate students, post docs,
and faculty who collaborate, learn from each other, and form
partnerships with other departments, universities, and corporations.
We study collaboration in the field, develop theory, design
and
deploy technologies, and consult with industry and communities to solve
problems. We are funded by the National Science Foundation,
the
Sloan Foundation, Accenture, Bosch, Siemens, and IBM. |
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