Spider & Starfish

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Spider and starfish is about centralized vs decentralized organizations. A link to this can be found Here

Spider and Starfish Questions

1. In the seventeenth century, why were the Spaniards unable to defeat the Apaches?What implications does this have concerning current, or future organizational?competition?
   

   The apaches werent similar to any of other tribes since they didnt have any riches. Therefore the spanards would try to make them slaves but the apaches did not approve so they started raiding spanish compounds and started to take their own supplies.They defeated the spanish because of this but mainly because they were decentralized. This means that companies that have a set of rules it is easier to get rid of in terms of competition since they do not break the rules for this own gain

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2. Briefly compare and contrast centralized and decentralized organizations.

   Centralized organizations that organizations that have set rules, a set order, and have rules for hiearchy. Rules are there for day to day functions.A decentralized organization is that there are leaders but do not have power in the system. There are rules but everyone has the freedom to make their own choices.

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3. List a few traits of an Decentralized organization?
   

   A decentralized organization has no fixed leader, has many places for people to meet up to dicuss ideas and make decisions. There is a leader but does not have much power.If one area collapses than there will be another area to take care of it.




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4. From a technical perspective, what is the primary difference between Napster and Kazza?

   Napster is a centralized company that had centralized servers and employees, when the executive leader was sued in court the entire company had to shut down. Everything was at one location. If that one location fell everyone lost all their jobs. Kazza had no centralized servers, everyone had access to everyones computers, Users had powers to make decisions about their music.



5. Is this reading relevant to the current competition between new organizations such as Uber and Lyft and existing taxi companies? Why or why not?

   Before uber you had to have a taxis lisence to drive a taxi, you had to follow certain rules, which made taxis a centralized organization. With Uber and Lyft anyone can become a driver with the click on of button on your phone. I think they are relevant cause they are entirely decentralized organizations since the workers have all the power and they can choose whether they want to work or not.

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