IBA 54875 Designing Organizations

This course offers a guide to the process of creating and managing an organization (no matter how complex), in order to be positioned to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands and have the ability to achieve unique competitive advantage. In the examples, well-known companies, including Disney, Nike, IBM, and Rovio (Angry Birds) provide the process for how various kinds of organization designs operate differently. The students will gain a comprehensive explanation of the basics of organization design, review a strategic approach to design that is based on the Star Model, a holistic framework for combining strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people, explore the different types of single-business, functional organizations and focuses on the functional structure and the cross-functional lateral processes that characterize most single-business organizations, and discuss the social technologies used to coordinate work flows, products, and services across organizations.

Credits

3

Offered

All locations intermittently.