With mergers and acquisitions, growth, and scaling up in general, we often forget the preliminary rule of organizational analysis: the size of the organization is a critical component, which may have ...

One of the most useful shifts in my own thinking has been letting go of the idea that organizational design is something you ...

Working on the business model is a fundamental part of pretty much every "lean startup" program, which makes it a fundamental part of pretty much every accelerator and incubator. Research from INSEAD ...

Organizational design is a comprehensive framework for integrating the key elements of an organization: people, information and technology. Organizational design includes the elements of ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

The terms "organization structure and design" and "organization architecture," while sounding similar, actually have very different meanings. The first term refers to structure in a metaphorical way ...

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of re-organization. Introducing a new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing ...

To design an effective software engineering organization that delivers business value, software engineering leaders should begin by understanding the IT operating model (ITOM) targeted by their CIO.

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