Organizational design is a step-by-step methodology which identifies dysfunctional aspects of work flow, procedures, structures and systems, realigns them to fit current business realities/goals and then develops plans to implement the new changes. The process focuses on improving both the technical and people side of the business.
Metaphorically speaking, the Economist suggests that corporate headquarters have put on weight, and need to slim down again. Literally speaking, PepsiCo, for example, began a $243m upgrade of their complex to make space for more staff. While a group called ‘the raiders of the 80’s’ were supposed to put an end to corporate extravagance and administrative bloat…
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Curious journalist, Rose George looks deeply into topics that are unseen but fundamental, whether it’s sewers or latrines or massive container ships or pirate hostages or menstrual hygiene. In this revealing TED talk, we are reminded of how almost everything we own and use, travels to us by container ship. This happens through a vast…
According to the Economist, the relationship between business and the state bears some resemblance to the Rhine in the Middle Ages. Like those Rhine boatmen, the companies operating within national borders must pay something towards the cost of supporting commerce, but if the tolls are excessive, trade will suffer. In such a scenario, some of the world’s 200…
Environmental activists have inflated a long balloon to mock a pipeline – protesting against the Keystone pipeline project during a demonstration in front of the White House. Activists fighting the Keystone XL pipeline are digging deep into a more than 7,000-page environmental analysis to marshal reasons President Barack Obama should reject the project. But finding a…
The building of the first Coke bottling plant in China since the Communist revolution, was part of a series of changes that turned the country into one of the biggest and fastest-growing markets in the world. In some ways, China’s market is still the world’s most enticing, with companies like GM and Apple having made fat…
German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel falls under Reuters’ political spotlight this month. As Angela Merkel forms a new coalition government after a third successive election triumph, the conservative chancellor can build on efforts, in place since her first term in 2005, that have increased the number of Germans in…
