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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

In his 2006 survey of U.S. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. The idea that companies should adopt customer-centric structures has been around in both academia and practice for a while, but it was George S.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. But to explain that, one needs to explain why some companies are so much better at developing software than others and why their innovations don’t seem to be diffusing to their smaller competitors the way Carr thought they inevitably would.