Distributed management

Distributed management is a management method for people to work together over the web to accomplish desired goals. Management activities are distributed through the people doing the work. Distributed management is a management method for people to work together over the web to accomplish desired goals. Management activities are distributed through the people doing the work. Traditionally the functions of management are centralised and performed by managers. This limits the amount of work that can be done. The Internet has provided the opportunity for people to work together globally. However, “manager centric” approaches have been unable to provide a practical means to fully utilize the available connectivity. Social networking has been tried, but it lacks an underlying management method and the tools to apply the method globally and consistently. In his Doctorate on Introducing Technology into Organizations completed in 1990, Dr Neil Miller identified the need for a distributed management paradigm. In 1991, he founded TASKey Pty Ltd to develop, operationalise, and commercialize a new distributed management paradigm. Patents on the core parts of distributed management were granted in Australia (1997) and USA (2000).