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As the purse strings tighten company costs need to be cut without this affecting performance or sales. A common solution to this problem is to restructure the organization of the company i.e. adjust the lines and boxes on the organization chart with the aim of setting it up for high performance. Thi...

Organization Design looks at how you need to change the ways your organization does things in order to increase productivity, performance, and profit. Providing the knowledge and method to handle the kind of recurring organisational change that all businesses face, those which do not involve transfo...

A well-designed organization is an effective organization. Decisions about organization design determine the shape and form of the organization – not only the reporting structure and authority relations, but also the number and size of sub-units and the interfaces between the sub-units. Indirectly...

The first in the readers' series called Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge Management and Organizational Design is a unique compilation of articles and book excerpts that describe how the management of an organization shapes the levels of knowledge transfer, innovation and learning...

To gain the full benefits of agility in any software organization, you need to extend it beyond developers to the organization as a whole. Aspiring digital businesses need overall agility, not just development team agility. Now, Sriram Narayan, IT management consultant at ThoughtWorks, shows how to ...

The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is an important factor in helping organizations manage their way through the process of technical and technological innovation. TRIZ is regarded today as one of the most comprehensive, systematically organized invention knowledge. The TRIZ methodology has the following advantages over traditional innovation supporting methods such as acknowledged increase of creative productivity, rapid acceleration of the systematic search for inventive and innovative solutions, scientifically founded approach to forecasting evolution of technical systems, products and processes. The TRIZ handbook presents the classical and modern tools like actualized 40 invention principles, 12 double inventive principles for business and management, 76 standard solutions, catalogues of physical, chemical and geometrical effects, inventive algorithm ARIZ, anticipatory failure identification, patterns of technical evolution and others.

This TRIZ handbook has been successfully used by more than 500 organizations such as ABB, BMW, Bosch, ContiTech, Daimler, Draeger, Hella, Henkel, HILTI, Liebherr, Mars, Miele, MTU Aero Engines, Bosch, Roche, Schaeffler, Voith, Volkswagen, ZF Sachs and many others.