Organization theory and design: Lecture 28

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• Effect of technology on organizational
structure

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Innovation & Change

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Strategic Role of Change
• How things around organizations change,
e.g. global changes in environment,
technology, consumer tastes, maturation
of markets in developed countries, fall of
communist and socialist regimes
• More domestic competition, increased
speed, bigger markets, fewer barriers,
more international markets
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Strategic Role of Change
• To stay alive organizations have only one
option – and that is TO CHANGE
• But How?

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Large scale changes in
organizations
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Structure change
Strategic change
Culture change
Knowledge Management enterprises
Quality programs
Resource planning
Mergers, joint ventures, consortia
Horizontal organizations
New technologies, products
New business processes
E-commerce
Learning organizations
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