Following the lateral relations concept, it also becomes possible to employ an organizational form that is different from the simple hierarchical information.

(1)Superficial or lateral relations:

Lateral pterygoid and the auriculotemporal nerve are lateral relations, the chorda tympani nerve lies medial near its upper end and medial pterygoid is an inferomedial relation.

Two of them (slack resources and the creation of self-contained tasks) work by reducing the need for information- processing while the remaining two (investment in vertical systems; creation of lateral relations) aim to increase the organisation's capacity for handling information.