The Nodes in the NetworkA bureaucracy has a hierarchy, so do does a 'hub and spoke' organisation but a network is like an ant colony, perhaps the best example of a complex adaptive system. There is no hierarchy, just different roles with each node in the network connected to all the other nodes and making its unique contribution.
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THE NODES IN THE NETWORKS
The network is in fact a network of networks with a national network of professional associations with skill and experience of organising the date and producing the information which can be used to appraise changes in value and at local level having networks consisting of representatives of these national associations focused on a particular population. The professional associations already in the network are:
Discussions are taking place with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and GIRFT, Getting It Right First Time, to ensure clinicians are involved. Obviously key teams in the DHSC and NHS are in the network , notably
Other organisations which are nodes in the network include
DESIGN PRINCIPLES The work of Nonaka and Takeuchi which emphasised that innovative solutions required the development of teams floating beside the bureaucracies, which still have an essential role to play in linear tasks such as the fair and open recruitment of staff or the procurement of MRI equipment. Here is a key quote: “A business organisation should have a nonhierarchical, self-organizing structure working in tandem with its hierarchical formal structure…..As business organisations grow in scale and complexity they should simultaneously maximise both corporate level efficiency and local flexibility…the most appropriate name is the ‘hypertext’ organisation” Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi; The knowledge creating company; OUP 1995 p160 The Value and Stewardship Network will be this type of organisation. |