The Huffington Post – Tom Vander Ark
“There are no longer easy-to-follow models for organizational design; the world is changing too fast. In both the public and private sector a rule that appears to have sustainability is maintaining a lean core structure that adaptively adds new projects. In addition to fast-paced organizations, a growing number of freelancers make a career of a portfolio of project work. There are already 53 million Americans (34% of the workforce) that fall into this category and that’s likely to increase to 40% by 2020. Leading education organizations, particularly those focused on project-based learning, organize their work as a series of projects. “That’s our default thinking,” said Lydia Dobyns, New Tech Network. She added that projects are the way they work with schools and drive collective learning and collaboration. (See more on the NTN Learning Organization framework). Projects break complexity into chunks small enough for a team to get their arms around and link the parts together in a thoughtful progression to create something where nothing had been.”(more)