Does Innovation OR Operational Excellence have to be viewed as an either-or proposition for long term success? It’s inconceivable to try to innovate on all corporate priorities without having operational discipline and metrics to manage that. In the current economic downturn, organizations do not have luxury of choosing one versus the other. Collaboration is a [...]
by sravan ankaraju on July 4, 2009
in Execution
The evolution of organization structures intrigued me when I started reading “The Future Arrived Yesterday” by Michael Malone. The shrinking lifecycle of a product, mass customization, and concept of disposable factories that I wrote about is taking place at an alarming speed that is going to change the dynamics of the industries. The pace of [...]
HIGH-LEVEL STRUCTURES Tabulator Era (1930’s) Mainframe Era (1964) Client-Server Era (1993) Networked Era (2000’s)
Four common business “events” that most often drive the need for developing, evaluating or modifying the operating model of the business are – Cost reduction, Shared Services and Business Simplification challenge Business merger or divestiture event (ex. expansion in new global markets) Fundamental shift in business models or corporate strategy Front-end to a major ERP [...]
