Keys to success in corporate redesign
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Why have some U.S. firms succeeded in redesigning themselves to meet competitive demands while others have not? Successful firms meet three key requirements for effective redesign: a commitment to total redesign as an economic "must," not simply an "ought;" a clear strategic vision supported by the structure and process changes necessary to achieve it; and a managerial philosophy that fits the chosen strategy and structure. Some firms have been able to install an alternative strategy-structure-process package by breaking completely from the established pattern. Other firms have "rediscovered" a viable combination of strategy, structure, and philosophy by stripping away central bureaucracy. Still others have searched outside familiar models, most often in the direction of network strategies and structures. Overall, the capacity for organizational renewal comes from investing in human skills and knowledge-bases, which serve as competency reserves in changing times. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: California Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0008-1256
Year: 1995
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Information technology, organization, and the response to strategic challenges
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Dynamic product demand, competitor innovations, and competitive pressures on costs all pose strategic challenges to companies. Many firms are responding to these challenges by modifying the way they organize their operations. During the 1980s, they have tended to externalize transactions by contracting out to the market or by engaging in longer-term contractual relationships with other firms. To preserve adequate control and coordination over this system of transactions, several organizational forms are employed which overlay market-contracting relations with integrative arrangements. Information technology enables the strategic benefits of externalization to be secured with considerably less risk of losing operational control, and thus promises to facilitate a major evolution in organizational design. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: California Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0008-1256
Year: 1987
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The future of business education
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Business schools need to reorganize their curricula in the face of the changing business environment. The need for both specialists and generalists in the business community suggests that multi-level educational programs are needed.
Publication Name: California Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0008-1256
Year: 1985
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