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Developing a transnational organization Flashcards

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What is the global matrix structure

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  • High Foreign product diversity
  • High foreign sales
  • Business areas and country managers
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What are the challenges of global matrix structure

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  • informational logjams
  • overlapping responsibility
  • turf battles and loss of accountability
  • slow decision making
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What is administrative heritage and why is it important?

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  1. Administrative heritage is org history, values, and norms in mgmt culture
  2. Challenge is to build new capabilities while protecting existing strengths
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What are the three archetypes?

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European Empire
American Empire
Japanese Empire

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Describe the European empire

  • Strategic Approach
  • Key Capability
  • Config of assets/capabilities
  • Role of overseas operation
  • Development + diffusion of knowledge
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Decentralized Federation

  • Multinational
  • National Responsiveness
  • Decentralized and nationally self-sufficient
  • Sensing and exploiting local opportunities
  • Developed and retained within each unit
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Describe the American empire

  • Strategic Approach
  • Key Capability
  • Config of assets/capabilities
  • Role of overseas operation
  • Development + diffusion of knowledge
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Coordinated federation

  • International
  • Transfer home country innovations abroad
  • Core competencies are centralized, others decentralized
  • Adapting and leveraging parent competencies
  • Developed at the center and transferred overseas
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Describe the Japanese empire

  • Strategic Approach
  • Key Capability
  • Config of assets/capabilities
  • Role of overseas operation
  • Development + diffusion of knowledge
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Centralized Hub

  • Global
  • global efficiency
  • centralized and globally scaled
  • implement parent company strategy
  • developed and retained at center
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Describe the Integrated network

  • Strategic Approach
  • Key Capability
  • Config of assets/capabilities
  • Role of overseas operation
  • Development + diffusion of knowledge
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  • Transnational
  • simultaneous achievement of response, efficiency, and learning
  • Dispersed, interdependent, and specialized
  • differentiated contributions by national units to integrate worldwide operations
  • Developed jointly and shared worldwide
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Three key characteristics of building transnational organization

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  • Builds and legitimizes multiple internal perspectives
  • Dispersed and interdependent physical assets and capabilities
  • robust and flexible integrative process
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Step 1 of building a transnational org

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  1. Build multidimensional internal perspectives
    - strong national subsidiary mgmt
    - global business mgmt
    - worldwide functional mgmt
    - multidimensionality in decision making and perspective
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Step 2 of building transnational org

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  1. Build dispersed and interdependent physical assets and capabilities
    - specialize activities of selected units
    - Most efficient plants become regional or global centers
    - Most effective R&D labs become centers
    - Interdependent relationships across organizational units
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Step 3 of building transnational org

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  1. Build flexible integrative processes
    - no static mgmt model applied in company
    - centralization, formalization, and socialization
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List the attributes of a transnational organization

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Structure- Anatomy

  • Redistributing assets and responsibilities
  • Cross-unit teams, taskforces supplementing structure

Processes - Physiology

  • Redefining information flows and relationships
  • Informal and formal communication channels

Culture - Psychology

  • Readjusting attitudes, mentalities, and beliefs
  • Shared understanding of company mission
  • sr mgmt behaviour
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Change process is driven by structural reconfiguration

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Change in formal structure and responsibilities
Reshapes org process and relationships
Redefines Individual attitudes and mentalities

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Change process initiated by attitudes and mentalities

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Change in attitudes and mentalities
Change in interpersonal relationships and processes
Change in Formal structure and responsibilities

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What are the 4 components of AI Factory

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Data Pipeline
Algorithms
Experimentation platform
Infratructure - connection to users

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How does AI affect Scope + Scale + learning

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Scale - lets scale inevtitability climb higher
Scope - Allows for greater scope through connection of digitized business
Learning - ability to produce accurate predicitions and gain fundamental understanding

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Advatnages of AI

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Scalable
Scope increase
Learning opportunities
Accurate predictions
upper hand through analytics

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