I am not a command-and-control leader. Though the hierarchical pyramid works for some, I prefer a framework that invites collaboration, flexibility and balance. This structure radiates decision-making ...

Two years ago, the IT group at my company, a national think tank on workers’ compensation insurance, faced a dilemma. One of the goals we had set for ourselves was to use our website to provide the ...

In contrast to traditional organization structures that group employees under fairly rigid reporting relationships, a matrix management organizational system groups employees together by work group or ...

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Matrix management is not new. The Dutch company Philips was at the vanguard of its use after the second World War and it became extremely popular in the 1970s and 1980s, helping large companies such ...

Silos plague our organizations, dividing people who should be working together into separate groups with often different primary allegiances. They also lead to what has been called matrix madness, as ...

Who does what?: For senior leadership, effort must be put into aligning goals and into instituting protocols to ensure new structure works. File Very understandably, organisations contemplate ...

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It used to annoy me when people referred to the equipment division as “the shop.” That does not bother me now because equipment management is a serious business. It has a huge impact on the company as ...