Designing future institutions
I've written an overview paper on the design of new institutions. It looks at the diversity of existing organisations, from the local to the global, and from the most commercial to public institutions. It proposes a framework for analysing twelve key dimensions of organisational design; and suggests some directions of travel, making the case for thinking in terms of what I call ‘meshes’, ‘multiple centres’ and ‘outside-in’ methods. ‘Meshes’ combine vertical and horizontal