What a managed regional network looks like
Today, in Evansville, I will be talking to a core group of regional leaders from a three state region touching Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
Top of mind, I suspect will be their concern about how you manage a complex strategy in this large a region. I will be showing them the attached drawing, which illustrates how we managed a 14 country region around Purdue.
Thomas Malone from MIT calls this organizational structure a "loose hierarchy". I prefer the term "managed network".
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