Argues that informational arrangement may make an organization less of a cumbersome machine by exteriorizing organizational processes on screen, making them transparent, witnessable and (reflexively) selfchanging.The platform organization addresses how some organizations - global investment banks engaged in institutional currency trading and big science collaborations engaged in high energy physics knowledge production - implement a transparency regime of information that extends to local and implicit knowledge. In otherwords, through being exteriorized, knowledge is kept current, alive and distributed in the respective organizations; to a significant degree, it is effectively precluded from becoming implicit and embodied in places and persons. Corresponds to a form of coordination that is content-driven rather than social authority based. "Management by contact" is a knowledge-enhancing, specialist activity closer to mediating and coaching than to "governing" and deciding.