Organizational Structure

Roles: structure, center, periphery, boundary, hierarchy, network, node, flow

The spatial and relational arrangement of roles, teams, and functions within an organization. As a target domain, organizational structure borrows extensively from architecture (silos, foundations, bridges), biology (organs, cells, nervous systems), and geography (centers, peripheries, territories). The frame foregrounds how physical layout and reporting relationships shape information flow, power dynamics, and emergent behavior — the insight that structure is not neutral but actively produces outcomes.

As Source Frame (1)

• Services Are Autonomous Workers → software-engineering

Applied To This Frame (18)

• architecture-and-building → Accessible Green
• architecture-and-building → Activity Nodes
• software-architecture → Bounded Context
• food-and-cooking → Brigade System
• architecture-and-building → Cathedral and Bazaar
• architecture-and-building → Common Areas at the Heart
• architecture-and-building → Flexible Office Space
• architecture-and-building → Half-Private Office
• architecture-and-building → Identifiable Neighborhood
• architecture-and-building → Mosaic of Subcultures
• architecture-and-building → Quiet Backs
• architecture-and-building → Sacred Sites
• architecture-and-building → Scattered Work
• architecture-and-building → Sitting Circle
• architecture-and-building → Small Services Without Red Tape
• architecture-and-building → Small Work Groups
• architecture-and-building → Work Community
• architecture-and-building → Workspace Enclosure