Guest Lecutre: Organizing for Innovation

Question 1

Trade-off: Creativity vs. Efficiency

Answer 1

Efficiency gains:
• day-to-day operation require stable routines
•achieved in stable environments

Creativity gains:
• development of new products requires creativity and room for new ideas
•achieved in a loose and flexible environment

Question 2

Mechanistic vs. organic models

Answer 2

Mechanistic:
• for companies under stable conditions

Organic:
• for companies under conditions of change
• associated with innovative, adaptive organizations

Question 3

Company values

Answer 3

• long-held
• distinctive
• articulated
• reinforced and repeated
• lived

Question 4

Culture

Links between strategy, organization design and culture

Answer 4

• culture as a mean to bring out behaviors needed to deliver strategy that results in superior results

Culture -> Organization Design -> Organization Strategy -> Business Strategy

Question 5

Org. Design Elements and Link to Culture

Answer 5

• culture can unify an organization and provide competitive advantage
• can also strange you with habits and values that no longer fit with the new business environment

Question 6

Office space / physical work environment

Answer 6

Open workspace:
• promotes coordinating and decision making
• enables social networks and trust
• supports flexibility
• can be distracting

Closed workspace:
• aids concentration and reflection