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Revamping hierarchy: the declining hierarchical state of organizations and emerging alternatives

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

Is the 21st century the downfall of the hierarchical organization? Taking into consideration current discussions about agility, delayering and network organizations one could think that the days of the hierarchical organization are numbered.

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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

The birds coordinate themselves with remarkable agility to find food and avoid attacks. The Agile Software movement has general principles that apply universally, and specific principles for practices like Kanban and scrum. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations. Schools of fish do the same.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. This reinvention demonstrates that substantial organizational change is possible, even amid barriers such as regulations and politics.