Holographic Management

Henrique Narciso Lisbon, Portugal

In a paper by the name : "All together Now: Enterprise Application Integration", by Andre Leclerc, I found a phrase that said:

"Evolution of businesses from hierarchcal management to holographic management"

Can anyone explain what holographic Management is?!

Posted: Jul 30, 2002 11:16 AM

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Frank Patrick Boonton, Nj, United States

Not really sure what the author had in mind, but he may be starting with a view of traditional, industrial age hierarchical management that is, as I believe, characterized by emphasis on local control and performance of vertical, functional sub-systems of the larger system, and results in sub-optimization of the larger system's performance.

I assume that by "holographic," he is refering to a structure that contrasts with "hierarchic." One might start with "horizontal" view of processes rather than the "vertical" functional hierarchies, and then move on to a deeper cross interaction of relationships between functions to support those processes, resulting in a complex, multi-dimensional view of the system that replaces the simplistic (and only marginally descriptive) pyramid of hierarchy.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

I could be wrong.

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Posted: Jul 31, 2002 8:00 PM

Henrique Narciso Lisbon, Portugal

This is the answer from the author:

A hologram is a projection into space of a 3D image that reproduces that image. Organizations are not inherently hierarchical, they are holographic.People, processes and the network they set up are a multiplicity of networks which interact with each other to create value for a business. However, most business are managed in an archaic form of top-down decision making, whereas decisions are mostly made by consulting a variety of networks before reaching a final decision.
I expect that future business management will evolve from its present hierarchical form to a more humanistic network form. The researcher who has most explored this theory of management is Minsberg from the University of McGill in Montreal. See the pages
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/mintzberg/
He is one of the great management minds of the century.

Posted: Aug 1, 2002 5:02 AM

Frank Patrick Boonton, Nj, United States

So Henrique -- If you had the answer from the author, why the question?

Posted: Aug 3, 2002 11:23 PM

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