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 ...

If you don't design an organizational structure, you'll end up with one anyway. Organizational structure happens at every company, either by conscious choice or unconscious evolution. Conscious choice ...

As any product-oriented startup founder will attest, great organizations — like great products — can be designed to be effective and responsive. Most breakthrough products are arrived at by following ...

Universities in the United Kingdom and around the world are adjusting to the changes in demographics, information technology, society and, of course, the coronavirus pandemic. As I see it, the higher ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

Sometimes epiphanies come by email—or, in this case, three emails. It was Saturday at 5:17 a.m., and Joanna was already at her laptop. As the new CEO of the fictional Seabright Publishing Company, ...

The saying 'the sum of the parts is greater than the whole' accurately applies to the Skanska companies. The U.S. affiliate of Sweden-based Skanska AB has parlayed its flat organizational structure ...

When getting started, a key responsibility of many small business owners is handling the organization’s human resources responsibilities. It will, however, likely become too much of a burden as you ...

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 ...