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

Harvard Business Review

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. In his 2006 survey of U.S. managers , he said the proportion of U.S.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

Hirschman arrived at his basic idea when, in a book on international development (a field that Paul Krugman dubbed him the "tragic hero" of ), he had tried to explain "why the Nigerian railways had performed so poorly in the face of competition from trucks." Book report to come.).