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Virtual Agency

 

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Describe Virtual Agency here.

Virtual

• therefore not necessarily physical - not tied to a physical location (quite helpful for some of us)
• electronic (enabled), otherwise couldn’t be virtual
• accessible, not just electronically - by phone and even ‘letters’

Exists to do/perform a job/s or function/s - how this happens almost immaterial. While it may have its own culture, values, desired behaviours etc these are all internal - in a virtual agency they are only important in as much as they affect the outputs/results to the users of the agency.

This should make us look at it quite differently, maybe the types of organisational structures we take for granted are not ‘right’ for a virtual agency - maybe it doesn’t matter?

Agency

Acting for others, on their behalf but with an interest? I doubt that we think of agencies like this.