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Implementing Strategy:: Creating Effective Organizational Designs
Implementing Strategy:: Creating Effective Organizational Designs
Ten
Implementing Strategy:
Creating Effective
Organizational Designs
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Exhibit 10.1
Phase
Phase11
Strategy:
Strategy: Low
Lowrevenue
revenuebase;
base;simple
simpleproduct-market
product-marketscope
scope
Structure:
Structure:Simple
Simple
Phase
Phase22
Strategy:
Strategy: Increase
Increaseininrevenues;
revenues;engage
engageininvertical
verticalintegration
integration(backward
(backward
and/or forward)
and/or forward)
Structure:
Structure:Functional
Functional
Phase
Phase33
Strategy:
Strategy: Expand
Expandinto
intonew,
new,related
relatedproduct-markets
product-marketsand/or
and/orgeographical
geographical
areas
areas
Structure:
Structure:Divisional
Divisional
Phase
Phase44
Strategy:
Strategy: Expand
Expandinto
intointernational
internationalmarkets
markets
Structure:
Structure:International
InternationalDivision,
Division,Geographic
GeographicArea,
Area,Worldwide
WorldwideProduct
Product
Division,
Division,Worldwide
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Worldwide Functional, or WorldwideGregory
CHAPTER 10Functional, or Worldwide
Matrix
MatrixG. Dess and G. T. Lumpkin
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Chief Executive
Officer or President
Corporate Staff
Project B
Project C
Project D
Matrix Structure
Advantages Disadvantages
• Increases market responsiveness through collaboration and synergies • Dual reporting relationships can result in uncertainty regarding
among professional colleagues accountability
• Allows more efficient utilization of resources • Intense power struggles may lead to increased levels of conflict
• Improves flexibility, coordination, and communication • Working relationships may be more complicated and human
• Increases professional development through broader range of resources duplicated
responsibility • Excessive reliance on group processes and teamwork may impede
timely decision making
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 10 Gregory G. Dess and G. T. Lumpkin
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Pros Cons
• Leverages the talents of all • Difficult to overcome political and
employees authority boundaries both inside and
• Enhances cooperation, outside the organization
coordination, and information- • Lacks strong leadership and common
sharing among functions, vision which can lead to coordination
divisions, SBUs, and external problems.
constituencies • Time-consuming and difficult-to-
• Enables a quicker response to manage democratic processes
market changes through a single- • Lacks high levels of trust which can
goal focus impede performance
• Can lead to coordinated “win-win”
initiatives with key suppliers,
customers, and alliance partners.
Pros Cons
• Enables the sharing of costs and • Harder to determine where one
skills company ends and another begins
• Enhances access to global due to close interdependencies
markets among players
• Increases market responsiveness • Leads to potential loss of
• Creates a “best of everything” operational control among
organization since each partner partners
brings core competencies to the • Results in loss of strategic control
alliance over emerging technology
• Encourages both individual and • Requires new and difficult-to-
organizational knowledge- acquire managerial skills
sharing and accelerates
organizational learning