What is the global matrix structure
- High Foreign product diversity
- High foreign sales
- Business areas and country managers
What are the challenges of global matrix structure
- informational logjams
- overlapping responsibility
- turf battles and loss of accountability
- slow decision making
What is administrative heritage and why is it important?
- Administrative heritage is org history, values, and norms in mgmt culture
- Challenge is to build new capabilities while protecting existing strengths
What are the three archetypes?
European Empire
American Empire
Japanese Empire
Describe the European empire
- Strategic Approach
- Key Capability
- Config of assets/capabilities
- Role of overseas operation
- Development + diffusion of knowledge
Decentralized Federation
- Multinational
- National Responsiveness
- Decentralized and nationally self-sufficient
- Sensing and exploiting local opportunities
- Developed and retained within each unit
Describe the American empire
- Strategic Approach
- Key Capability
- Config of assets/capabilities
- Role of overseas operation
- Development + diffusion of knowledge
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
Describe the Japanese empire
- Strategic Approach
- Key Capability
- Config of assets/capabilities
- Role of overseas operation
- Development + diffusion of knowledge
Centralized Hub
- Global
- global efficiency
- centralized and globally scaled
- implement parent company strategy
- developed and retained at center
Describe the Integrated network
- Strategic Approach
- Key Capability
- Config of assets/capabilities
- Role of overseas operation
- Development + diffusion of knowledge
- 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
Three key characteristics of building transnational organization
- Builds and legitimizes multiple internal perspectives
- Dispersed and interdependent physical assets and capabilities
- robust and flexible integrative process
Step 1 of building a transnational org
- Build multidimensional internal perspectives
- strong national subsidiary mgmt
- global business mgmt
- worldwide functional mgmt
- multidimensionality in decision making and perspective
Step 2 of building transnational org
- 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
Step 3 of building transnational org
- Build flexible integrative processes
- no static mgmt model applied in company
- centralization, formalization, and socialization
List the attributes of a transnational organization
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
Change process is driven by structural reconfiguration
Change in formal structure and responsibilities
Reshapes org process and relationships
Redefines Individual attitudes and mentalities
Change process initiated by attitudes and mentalities
Change in attitudes and mentalities
Change in interpersonal relationships and processes
Change in Formal structure and responsibilities
What are the 4 components of AI Factory
Data Pipeline
Algorithms
Experimentation platform
Infratructure - connection to users
How does AI affect Scope + Scale + learning
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
Advatnages of AI
Scalable Scope increase Learning opportunities Accurate predictions upper hand through analytics
