Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) helps leaders to understand and respond to the next wave of innovation and change being driven by digital information and networked organizational models. Founded in 1987 by Dr. Jerry Mechling of Harvard Kennedy School, LNW is now an independent think tank that partners globally with strategic partners to provide uniquely powerful research and executive learning programs.

Current research efforts are focused on the “cross-boundary” challenge of changes operating across traditional organizational boundaries – departments, jurisdictions, branches of government, and sectors of the economy. Cross-boundary reforms represent the next wave of the enormous opportunities and challenges opened up by information technology and networked organizational models.

Leading successfully in this networked world requires elected officials, general managers, and technology managers to collectively make difficult decisions and choices about the level and pace of reform and change. By bringing together leading practitioners, academics, executives and students to share ideas and learn about governance, LNW strives to deliver lasting public value for pressing challenges.