INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN MANAGEMENT V - SGGW

The development of information technologies allows to the free exchange of
information and knowledge with the part of computer nets and creating the new
quality of the structures of organizational, business processes and administrative.
The modern management at organizations is closely dependent on from the
utilization of the modern tools which help to reach appointed strategies. Information
is based on given received from credible sources and he makes up answering
to current knowledge, which this is the wider notion than information, figure 1.
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Figure 1. The components of intellectual supplies.
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Source: Own work on the base of: I. P. Rutkowski: Zasoby intelektualne firmy i inteligentny
system informacyjny strategii marketingowej, Marketing i Rynek nr 1/2003, s. 8..
2. THE NETWORK ORGANIZATION CHARACTERISTICS
In general it is assumed that network organization is recognized as a company
or group of companies that has a minimum of formal structures and relies instead
on the formation and dissolution of teams to meet specific objectives. A network
organization utilizes information and communications technologies extensively,
and makes use of know-how across and within companies along the value chain 3 .
Also network organization is a structure based on mutual relation among enterprises
not capital conjoined and with cooperative character 4 (see figure. 1). Moreover
network organization could be described as organization where companies are
conjoined with interrelationships on different plain. According to M. Perry such
3 http://dictionary.bnet.com/definition/network+organization.html
4 M. Górzyński, W. Pander, P. Koć, Tworzenie związków kooperacyjnych między MSP oraz
MSP i instytucjami otoczenia biznesu, PARP, Warszawa 2006, p.16.
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