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- Should You Franchise Your Retail Empire?
- Store owners who are skilled or lucky enough to be able to expand their retail operations to multiple outlets at some point must make a crucial decision. Is it better to manage these far-flung operations from a central HQ, or is franchising -- essentially giving local managers...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Harley-Davidson Motor Company organizational design: The road to high performance
- Introduction
- Research articles 1998-04-01
- Organizational Design
- Organization Design OD is the set of decisions and procedures used to effect suitable changes in the Organizational Structure OS to make it more efficient. The issues involved in OD include allocation of responsibilities, reporting relationships, and span of control. Strategic OD depends upon external environment, technology, and other socio-economic...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Active Ownership: Generating Better Returns in a Competitive Market
- Canada's private equity market continued to grow in 2004 and competitive pressures mounted. This paper reviews the competitive pressures Limited Partners LPs and General Partners GPs are facing and how they might differentiate themselves in this challenging environment by being more actively involved as owners and partners. It describes the...
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Hands Off!: How Organizational Design Can Make Delegation Credible
- Credible delegation of discretion obtains when it is a rational strategy for managers not to overrule employee decisions that are based on delegated decision rights or renege on the level of delegated discretion and this is common knowledge. Making delegation of discretion credible becomes a crucial issue when organizations want...
- White papers 2005-10-17
- Organization Design Optimization Using Genetic Programming
- This paper describes how Genetic Programming GP techniques are used to help project managers find near optimal designs for their project organizations. GP is used as a postprocessor optimizer for the project organization design simulator Virtual Design Team VDT. Decision making policy and individual/sub-team properties, activity assignments and percentage allocation...
- White papers 2004-05-21
- Organizational Designs And Innovation Streams
- This paper empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We operationalize exploitation and exploration in terms of innovation streams; incremental innovation in existing products as well as exploring into architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data on...
- White papers 2006-09-08
- How To Build Value Into A Merger
- In the M&A marketplace, leading practitioners have shifted their focus from the mechanics of the deal to the value-creating potential of integration. And no aspect of the process is more critical than post-merger organization design. Since two large consumer products companies merged in a $6 billion transaction in 1999, nearly...
- White papers 2005-09-14
- It's Not All About The Killer App: Organization Design And Innovative People Strategy Are Critical
- Digital Convergence is creating opportunity - and confusion - in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications TMT industries C-suite TMT executives who wish to compete in this space increasingly are looking to organizational convergence, merging, or forming external relationships alliances or partnerships to develop integrated products or services in order to...
- White papers 2008-08-04
- Boosting Business Performance Through Organization Design
- Organization design is the vehicle through which business strategy is executed and defines the environment in which the talent of an enterprise is released. To that end, organization design is a critical business activity establishing the framework by which an enterprise serves its customers and interfaces with the market. As...
- White papers 2008-09-22
- Better Strategy Through Organizational Design
- Redesigning an organization to take advantage of nowadays' sources of wealth creation isn't easy, but there can be no better use of a CEO's time. Corporate strategy, according to the classic definition, consists of the actions a company takes to gain competitive advantage. Executives invest enormous energy in product designs...
- White papers 2007-04-26
- Principles Of Organizational Design Part I
- Organizational Structure OS is the framework that defines reporting relationships between different positions within the organization. However, the OS, once developed, is not permanent. It needs to be altered depending upon the environmental factors or a change in the corporate strategy of the organization. Organizational Design OD refers to the...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- Example Of Organizational Design For F&A Cabinet
- Organizational Structure OS is the framework that defines reporting relationships between different positions within the organization. It is imperative to effect changes in the OS depending on the environmental factors and issues. Organizational Design OD refers to the management decisions and the set of structural elements used to effect changes...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Organizational Design Fundamentals
- Organization Design OD refers to the dynamics of relationships between different personnel placed at different positions in the organization. The issues involved in OD include degree of decentralization and span of control. An organization acquires an OD depending on its area of work and its corporate strategy. The paper examines...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Performance Management For Presidents
- A Performance Management System is a President's principal tool for leading and directing the business and for implementing organizational change. Yet many organizations have no such methodology at all. Finance, accounting, sales and production systems are usually in place. For most new Presidents these systems are obvious or commonly understood....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Supply Organizational Structures
- This article resulted from presentations and discussions at a CAPS Research Best/Good Practices Forum hosted by MasterFoods U.S.A. on May 14 and 15, 2003. The topic of the forum was supply organizational structures, with an emphasis on organizational design, technology applications, process improvements, and employee training and development. The following...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Strategic Organization Design: An Integrated Approach
- This white paper asserts that every industry and business sector, competition continues to intensify. New players are suddenly changing the basic rules of the game with new products, technologies, distribution patterns, and business models. To succeed, leaders must understand the concepts and learn the skills involved in designing their organizations...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Complexity, Robustness, And Performance: Trade-Offs In Organizational Design
- This article analyses the relationship between organizational complexity, robustness, and performance. Structures that are more complex are not necessarily more profitable, but are less robust. One of the least complex structures always performs worst. Superior organizational performance may vanish completely due to misallocated agents. Organizational performance can be enhanced through...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Organization Design
- This paper explains organization structure based on optimal coordination of interactions among activities. The main idea is that each manager is capable of detecting and coordinating interactions only within his limited area of expertise. The optimal design of the organization trades off the costs and benefits of various configurations of...
- White papers 2000-02-22
- Learning Objectives For Organization Design
- This presentation is about organization structure and design. The purpose of this presentation is to explain objectives for organization design, key factors in organization design decisions, basic types of task environments , types of task interdependence in organization design and options of organizational design. It illustrates the basic matrix design...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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