Mastering Unreal® Technology, Volume I

Chapter 2. Social Age Organizations

The compounded technological advances of the past 200 years have reduced the cost of communication to a point that many take it for granted. Low-cost communication has created dramatically increased efficiency, which has become a catalyst for entirely new social and business organizations. More complex social structures and intricate business collaboration networks are now possible and generate incredible organizational efficiencies in businesses of all sizes.

Traditional hierarchical structures have great value to organizations where information is controlled or consolidated at the top. Military services depend on a rigid and well-defined hierarchical structure, but dynamic market forces have forced ...