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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Organizational architecture"”.
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Inter-organizational architecture and innovative processes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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The relationship between organizational architecture, product architecture, and product complexity
The aircraft gas turbine product architecture and manufacturing infrastructure are used to show the importance in the relationship between the organizational architecture and product architecture. The product complexity, organizational complexity and new product development costs are compared for …
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Organizational Architecture Design and Assessment of Statistical Feasibility for NPM Implementation in an Airplane Subassembly
… It is also imperative to restructure Assembly A organizational architecture to accommodate the radical innovation required to implement NPM. The existing organizational model invites many improvement opportunities in communication, collaboration, and shortened learning cycles. A high velocity …
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A case study : creating momentum and self-sustaining change in product development through continuous improvement efforts
… time and resources on people engagement and organizational architecture. The remaining 20 percent is spent on lean tool utilization. Raytheon emulated this model and generated initial people engagement. We discovered that successful change management embodies three factors: 1) Engaging …
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Architecting Innovative Engineering Organizations within Large Technology Enterprises Using a Systems Thinking Approach
… that foster an innovative environment to drive organizational innovation. Additionally, it demonstrates how a systems thinking approach can holistically analyze an enterprise and generate crucial considerations for designing future organizational architecture. To achieve this goal, the study …
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Analysis of sourcing & procurement practices : a cross industry framework
… options that the firms can use relative to the organizational structure of the Procurement Department. These options are based on a combination of the importance of the inputs and the supplier/buyer power differential. Lastly, this thesis identifies the factors that affect these options. Key …
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Essays in organizational economics
… theoretical essays that examine the role of organizational architecture in facilitating organizational adaptation to a changing environment. Chapter 1 develops a model of coordinated adaptation where .an organization needs to respond to incoming information about its environment while at the …
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A Method for Visualizing the Structural Complexity of Organizational Architectures
… components and their interconnectedness, organizational representation in complexity analysis is just as essential. This thesis addresses this organizational aspect of complexity through an Organizational Complexity Metric (OCM) to aid complexity management. The OCM augments Sinha’s …
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THE MECHANICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE: CLANDESTINE ROUTINES IN THE ODEBRECHT CASE
… Odebrecht as an instance of institutionalized organizational deviance. Whereas much of the existing literature focuses on the drivers of organizational misconduct or on the allocation of responsibility for wrongdoing, this study shifts attention to the mechanics of execution. It analyzes the …
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Compassion in organizations: sensemaking and embodied experience in emergent relational capability. A phenomenological study in South African human service organizations
… acts of compassion in accordance with specific organizational architecture. Situations with limited resources leading to resource exhaustion require further studies to address the risks and liabilities of compassion organizing (Dutton, Worline, Frost, & Lilius, 2006). South African human service …
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Information flow & knowledge capture : lessons for distributed integrated product teams
Two major organizational tools, Integrated Process and Product Development (IPPD) and co-location, have been key initiatives in many corporate knowledge management and information flow strategies. The benefits of IPPD and co-location are well documented, and central to the success of these tools is …
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Enterprise architecture in a collaborative laboratory
This research explores the alignment between organizational, information systems and technological architecture within a Collaborative Laboratory, using Enterprise Architecture as a guiding framework. The study focuses on identifying misalignments in the current architecture of the collaborative …