Network-centric business

Mopsos quotes an interview with Prof. Manuel Castells concludes thusly, Network-centric business

Now this is exactly what I would like to see happening in our large organizations: moving from vertical and rigid bureaucracies to horizontal living and interconnected networks. Imagine local teams of information-oriented (more than sales-oriented) people, and back offices of specialized teams, or "Value Shops", as Tom Stewart puts it. And I think the key is not so much in the technology than in what Prof. Castells calls the "programming of the network" .