As globalizing trends advance, accordingly, the complexity of human organizations magnifies. For purposes of monitoring and decision making, as well as mapping and comprehending, there are more defining persons, communication nodes, and interactions comprising the human organization at the global level than one could articulate at the local and regional levels, because of interactions between levels. A critical challenge is to know the critical aspects of the global activity system that defines the global learning organization effectively useful for a given circumstance and situation. In many respects,the system is an observer-dependent construction, in that the observer must decide which persons, nodes, and interactions are worth noting to define the system and make it, as a human activity system, visible and comprehensible, again, for purposes of
monitoring and decision making. To work meaningfully with the global organization, its
open knowledge, interactions, and activities, all participants require more clarity about more persons, nodes of operation, and interactions than needed at local and regional levels. Or if one prefers, to know the essential persons, nodes and interactions.This characteristic of the global organization distinguishes it from its earlier manifestations as a local and regional organization. It also seems a necessary prerequisite to plan and anticipate development from one level of complexity to another. Importantly,the enhanced complexification of the organization allows more potential for open knowledge to emerge in the ongoing operations of the global organization.