The Distributed Network of Cooperating Teams (DNCT) : A Multi-Level Initiative for Organizational Change

There is a diverse literature on the general topic of organizational improvement, in which there is often a recommendation to create new groups and activities for helping the change effort. Examples include “networked improvement communities”, “communities of transformation”, and “secondary operating systems”. Generally these focus on achieving substantial overarching change. These differ significantly from the more common concept of “communities of practice” whose primary function is to provide exchange of knowledge and understanding among individuals sharing a common profession, where the emphasis is more on individual improvement than transformative collective change.