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In a recent article in New York Times on “the Challenge of Creating a Unified Organizational Strategy,” it talks about the difficulties of large organizations in unifying the entire business and having no boundaries.
In class we talked about flat and tall business organizations. The advantage of a tall business structure is that you have a high amount of specialization and expertise in each branch, but the flaw with all these branches is that, as described in the article, they form tribes and workers connect with their immediate colleagues. This reduces communication between different sectors of the corporation and can be costly for a business. Accounting not communicating with marketing and so forth. I believe that it is important for companies to have a unified organization. It helps build a strong and valuable corporate culture in which everyone is working with everyone. In class we talked about Zappos and how every worker, regardless of expertise, had to go through a training course. Furthermore, workers work in the same office space and the CEO works in a cornerr desk unit. This new approach to the vertical structure is a great one which breaks down tribes and units all workers.