Week 4, post#3

Organizations as Brains, Computers, or Information-Processing Entities
The concept of having an organization function as a Brain, Computer or Information-Processing entity, seems rather far-fetched. Although I’m sure it can be modeled after these three structures, I doubt it can function for very long without running into issues that might make drastic changes.

Most organizations start out with an idea and it usually results in the production of a product or a service. In the beginning, the idea and the passion the owner has about this idea becomes the driving force of its continued success. Once the owner adds employees and increases production of this product or service he/she needs to develop a mechanism to coordinate and to communicate with all of its parts.

Communicating in the Brain structure would seem rather authoritarian. There would be one brain with one over-riding thought and moral process. Communicating in the Computer structure would require updates and adding new patches to help with breaches and virus. There would be a danger of continuing with ideas that start to fall behind the innovation curve. Communicating in the Information-Processing entity would seem rather mundane as the process of information is about the input and output of data.