Organizational interface

A structural element that allows a context of activity to interact with another context of activity.

The interface specifies how processes in one activity context are translated into processes in another activity context. It allows interoperability between different contexts of activity or organizations, projects, ventures. See also networks of networks.

The legal structure of an organization is an interface, allowing it to interact with other organizations in its ecosystem, including the government or governmental institutions.

The interface is part of the organizational structure. It must be considered at the same time with other structural elements such as culture and ethos, methodologies, and infrastructure, because all these elements are interrelated and form a holistic system. In other words, it cannot be considered in abstraction of these other structural elements.