Hastily Formed Networks Are Mot for Everyone

摘要

The conclusion by Peter J. Denning and Rick Hayes- Roth in their "The Profession of IT" column ("Decision Making in Very Large Networks," Nov. 2006) should have been that hastily formed networks are useful but only when information flow (as opposed to raw data flow) is high and coordination minimal. In any other context (such as the case they cited of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency), these networks quickly become impractical.