What is a FLAT ARMY? - 0 views
How To Lead A Flat Army - Forbes - 0 views
The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman - Forbes - 0 views
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hareholder value is a result, not a strategy
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your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.
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Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life’s purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging.
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Keynote: Dave Gray & The Connected Company on the New Livestream. Live. Redefined. - 1 views
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David Gray starts talking at around 10:00 Services co-evolve in the dialogue with the customers Efficiency (orderly processes) versus Flexibility (adaptability to the market). Tight coupling (formal classic inflexible org design) versus Loose coupling (easily change components' locations, autonomous locations, holographic design: "pods") Loose coupling implies lower consistency. "podular company" "composability" Trains versus cars How does that proposal scale? By creating a shared platform, and then having each pod do its thing.
Corner Office - Structure? The Flatter the Better, says Cristóbal Conde - Que... - 0 views
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I think top-down organizations got started because the bosses either knew more or they had access to more information. None of that applies now. Everybody has access to identical amounts of information.
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Now a global company means a company composed of teams that are themselves dispersed. So every team can be global in many senses, not just the company.
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a C.E.O. needs to focus more on the platform that enables collaboration
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How to Design a Flat Organization : The World : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum - 0 views
Institutional innovation: Creating smarter organizations to scale learning | Deloitte U... - 0 views
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institutions as configured today force very significant trade-offs between efficiency and learning
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significantly limit space for the exploration, tinkering, improvisation, and experimentation that drive learning
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Fortunately, the technologies that are driving disruption are also enabling the institutional architectures that can support this ambitious goal.
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The new digital workplace: How enterprises are preparing for the future of work | ZDNet - 0 views
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The consumer world is updating applications and hardware faster than ever, but this increase in speed is largely not happening in the enterprise
The End of Management - WSJ.com - 2 views
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They were an answer to the challenge of organizing thousands of people in different places and with different skills to perform large and complex tasks, like building automobiles or providing nationwide telephone service
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They were designed and tasked, not with reinforcing market forces, but with supplanting and even resisting the market
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Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma
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Organization Design Forum - 0 views
Quotes of the Week - December 15, 2014 - 0 views
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“Our organizations are less capable than the people inside them. Core-incompetency. Every organization today is still run on principles of hierarchy/bureaucracy.”