The new BIG
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Creativity and innovation has long been the domain of small, entrepreneurial companies. Large organizations on the other hand have dominated by scale, distribution power and critical mass. But the rules of BIG are changing. Everyone-to-everyone communications; incredibly easy distribution and group formation and "roots up innovation" changes the rules of what it means to be BIG and successful.
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The New Organization Model: Learning at Scale - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.orgIn recent posts we've described a massive institutional transformation that will occur as part of the big shift: the move from institutions designed for scalable efficiency to institutions designed for scalable learning. The core questions we all need to address are: who will drive this ...
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Why Do Companies Exist? - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.orgWhy Do Companies Exist? If you follow the logic laid out by historians such as the late Alfred Chandler , who wrote classics like Scale and Scope and Strategy and Structure , companies exist to exploit the benefits of being big . They exist, in other words, to maximize efficiency at scale. ...
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The Case for Institutional Innovation - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.orgThe Case for Institutional Innovation The past belonged to push, but the future belongs to pull. That's an argument we've made before and in our most recent post, "Why Do Companies Exist?" --as well as more expansively in this Journal of Service Science article . What will pull-based ...
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Why Do Companies Exist? - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.orgIf you follow the logic laid out by historians such as the late Alfred Chandler, who wrote classics like Scale and Scope and Strategy and Structure, companies exist to exploit the benefits of being big. They exist, in other words, to maximize efficiency at scale. The experience curve nicely ...
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The Process-Managed Org Chart: The End of Management and the Rise of BioteamsAn overlay of end-to-end process management onto existing functional organizations has its rough edges, to say the least. In fact, the transformation to a process-managed enterprise could really mean the End of Management, as we know it. What might a process-managed org chart look like? If you ...
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Why Do Companies Exist? - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.orgsome good background to the old bigWilliam Charnock added 7 months ago
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The Process-Managed Org Chart: The End of Management and the Rise of Bioteamscombination of collective decision making and organizational structure - death of the org chardWilliam Charnock added 10 months ago
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Enterprise 2.0: The Nature of the Firm - ReadWriteWebwe have to changeWilliam Charnock added 14 months ago
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Multiplayer online games and leadership in businessGreat article about multi user online gaming and leadership. The skills of a connected organization are different to those of an organization managed by hierarchical management structure and therefore the future leaders are likely to be the ones who can persuade through digital interaction not ...William Charnock added 14 months ago
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