The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has, since 1999, been undergoing a restructuring and a transformation from a hierarchical bureaucratic organization to a flatter, more flexible, information based network organization. A Business Re-engineering Team has been established, which is overseeing three organization-wide information technology based projects. One of these is a Portal, an electronic gateway to all the information within the UNDP, which had its initial 'roll-out' in June 2002. This paper examines the facilitating and obstructing factors to the success of this project. By extension, I illuminate the facilitating and obstructing factors to the ongoing transformation to a network organization of the UNDP, and indeed the United Nations as a whole.
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