Dugga 3 steps

Question 1

Q1 Steps A friend of yours, Kim, has successfully applied for both positions and is now asking you for advice. Which position would you argue for, and why?

Answer 1

1. Depends on Kim’s criteria for a job
2. Both companies can improve
3. At Webcomp knowledge transfer is more core

Question 2

Q2 Steps Write a text on the challenges in estimation caused by covert politics, what kind of doom loop actors could be stuck in and what management can do about it.

Answer 2

1. Challenges in estimation.
2. Doom loops
3. What to do

Question 3

Q3 Steps How would you expect a transformation in a company towards autonomous project teams to influence open disagreement and covert politics in the organization?

Answer 3

1. Autonomous teams
2. Small group
3. No manager
4. More responsibility
5. Lager impact

Question 4

Q4 Steps Use the literature of Module 5 to discuss and motivate how, in the context of inter-organisational projects, different levels of project complexity and uncertainty can influence the preferred form of organizational coupling.

Answer 4

1. Complexity requires semi-coupling
2. Inter-organisational projects cannot be tightly coupled
3. Specialization necessary
4. PC decoupled, Medium complexity/uncertainty
5. FCAS - high complexity and uncertainty

Question 5

Q5 Steps
A) Use the course literature on complexity and uncertainty (Module 5) to analyze the levels/types of complexity and uncertainty in this project.
B) Based on the literature from Module 5, discuss how the levels of complexity and uncertainty of the FCAS project are related to the choice of knowledge integration mechanisms implemented in the project?

Answer 5

A1. Uncertainty - Super High Tech/High tech
A2. Complexity - System
B1. High complexity -> Knowledge sharing
B2. High uncertainty -> less knowledge sharing
B3. Specialization hampers vertical integration
B4. Reasonable with more knowledge integration

Question 6

Q6 Steps What recommendations do you see as applicable on the FCAS case based on Brusoni et al. (2001)? Motivate why or why not they are applicable to the case?

Answer 6

1. Multi-technology projects
2. Rate of change and interdependencies
3. Specialization hampers vertical integration
4. Several companies cannot be tightly coupled