Systemic, Team Based, Distributed Design of Virtual Enterprise

There are plenty of virtual enterprises, which use the classical organization design as a fundamental task for their operation. This paper examines how traditional structural design processes are constructed and points out their weaknesses. The indication of the bounds of action within the virtual infrastructures is examined. The details of the struçture of the virtual enterprise are responsibility of the knowledge specialists. The paper describes an environment to design the organizational structure of virtual enterprises as consisting more of knowledge nodes and inter-organizational networks than physical spaces. Systemic methodologies are used to achieve this goal. The methodologies of this analysis concentrate on the human factor that is evolving in those systems. They are valuable tools for understanding and defining the system functions.