BU398 Lecture 11: Lecture 11- Designing Organization for Growth
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Lecture 11: designing organization for growth (chapter 8) Solutions that worked in the past will not work again: each stage offers learning experiences that are essential for success in subsequent stages, but each stage requires a completely new approach. Growth = change: organizations will hit stages where what worked before is now holding them back and needs to change. Change can be risky and new processes are usually not efficient at first. Sometimes organizations can grow by having some parts of the org that are mechanistic and other parts that are more organic. Larger organizations are typically more bureaucratic reduces corruption + increases control can lead to dysfunction. Structure: balance mechanistic and organic processes have the right amount of bureaucracy designing scalable processes: processes that work whether you have 10 employees or 10 thousand. Orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es overly (cid:271)ureau(cid:272)ratized; (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t adapt to e(cid:374)viro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: vulnerability. Cant prosper in current environment (e. g. due to shifts in consumer tastes)
