Exercises Market Leader book on page 40

Formal structure of lines and boxes, who reports to who.

Go beyond that and think about their decisions rights. Who do they need to consult, who do they need to keep informed.

Third area is information flow; help us to understand how a company works

Final area is the rewards, provide incentives in an organization 

1 orgdna.com website is a survey tool, where you can answer a small number of questions about your organization.

2 the answers are compared with answers from other 40,000 executives

3 this comparison can recognize patterns, and they can help to organisations to learn from others

4 they organizes both workshops with executives and probes in to particular aspects that seem to be particularly interesting.

1 the company was organized by function.

2 manufacturing had responsibility for all the plants around the world, Marketing ran all the brands in every country.

3 the company was a very efficient organization but they wasn’t very good at responding to the local markets

4 They wanted to move to a geographically based organization 

We did a lot of looking at how the business operated, where products were made, where they were shipped to, how competitors were organized. And we also had to spend a lot of time thinking about whether we needed regional organizations or whether every single business unit would report back to the headquarters, er, in the US.