DESIGNING THE

NETWORK
ORGANIZATION
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The Network Organization Model

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[1] Strategy
1. Determine strategic intent
2. Define organitional mission [TTMV]
3. Analyze Environment
4. Set Objectives
5. Determine requirament
6. Access resources
7. Develop action plans
8. Implement plans
9. Monitor Outcomes

Exp. How to building/formulating strategy? See the paper

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Mission:
• Company Philosophy
• Company Identity or Strategic objectives:
self concept 1. Revenue growth
• Principal products or 2. Profitability
service 3. Costumer satisfaction
• Costumers and
4. Market share
markets
• Geografic Focus
5. Financial returns
• Obligations to
6. Technological leadership
shareholders 7. Cash flow
• Commitment to 8. Operating efficiency
employee (exp. Cost per unit,
expense per employee
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Strategic Network Decisions

• Solutions
• Types of Solutions
• Scale and Scope
• Integration
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[2] Structure
• Structural dimensions (key
internal characteristics of an
organization)
• Specialization
• Hierarchy of authority
• Centralization
• Professionalism
• Personnel ratios
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Principles of OS:
1. Differentiation: the extent to
which task are divided into
subtask and performed by
individuals with specialized skills
2. Integration: the extent to which
various parts of an organization
cooperate and interact with each
other
3. Rules
4. Goals
5. Value
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• This area governs the

[3] People human resource policies of
recruiting, selection,
• The
rotation, training, and
company/Employee development
• Suppliers • Human resource policies –
• Marketing in the appropriate
intermediaries combinations – produce the
• Customers talent required by the
• Competitions  Finacial publics strategy and structure of the
 Media publics organization, generating the
• Publics  Government skills and mind-sets
 Citizen-action
 Local publics
necessary to implement the
 General publics chosen direction
 Internal publics,
included orkers,
manager, volunteers.
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People-Stakeholder approach
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[3] Process

Lateral Process:
can be carried out in a range
of ways, from voluntary
Vertical Process: contacts
Vertical processes are usually business between members to
planning and complex and formally
budgeting processes. The needs of supervised teams
different departments are centrally
collected, and priorities are decided for
the budgeting and allocation of the
resources to capital, research and
development, training, and so on
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[4] Rewards
• The purpose of the reward system is to align the goals of
the employee with the goals of the organization.
• The organization’s reward system defines policies
regulating salaries, promotions, bonuses, profit sharing,
stock options, and so
• Reward systems are effective only when they form a
consistent package in combination with the other design
choices forth
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Implications of the Star Model™