Virtual organization
Assembles temporary, boundary spanning alliances of otherwise independent firms around a shared opportunity, with defined decision rights and partner scorecards, but says nothing about whether participants are human or machine.
William Davidow and Michael Malone, 1992
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads four: Structure, Authority, Coordination, and Incentives. The other eight it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
What is the smallest unit that can own a customer outcome end to end?
Which decisions may an agent make alone, and who is able to stop it?
What synchronizes the work when there is no room and half the team is not a person?
What are people paid for once output is no longer the scarce thing?