Each hierarchical organization has, in reality, two different structures that increase the complexity of the organization. On top of the hierarchical structure that defined who reports to whom, there is a network structure of all the people in the organization and how they interact with each other to perform the work. A hierarchical structure has managers, […]
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A management system is a set of policies, processes, and procedures used by an organization to ensure that it can fulfill the tasks required to achieve its objectives. Every organization adopts several principles from several management theories and he needs to translate them into a concrete guideline for people how to conduct their daily activities. I
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In a centralized organization, coordination of prioritization should be easy. A common manager can resolve a prioritization dispute. It’s working better on paper; we all know how reality is looking like. In decentralized organizations, there isn’t a central authority that can set priorities. How decentralized organizations can handle the coordination of priorities?
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Most of us using analysis to find what cause problems in any system. Few are using the opposite approach (synthesis) which focus on the system as a whole. We believe that Management consulting that dealing with complexity should start with a synthesis of a system and move to analysis when needed.
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The sum of the parts is greater than the whole is the idea of emergent properties in everyday language. When you are creating any complex system (a group of people is a complex system), the group start to develop behaviors, competencies, and skill sets (properties) that the individuals in the group don’t have or have
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