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Business Definition for: Horizontal Organization
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- Team organization - learning organization: the University of Arizona four years into it
- The University of Arizona Library is in its fourth year of a reorganization that placed it at the forefront of organizational restructuring among academic libraries. This change involved the flattening of the old vertical organization into a horizontal organization whose charge is dynamic and customer-driven.The restructuring was prompted by several...
- Research articles 1997-09-01
- Purpose Of Sales Organization
- Organizing the sales force enables the company to accomplish the sales objectives in a more effective manner. It is always better to put the sales force in specialized groups and bring stability and continuity in the sales. Apart from educating about the different types of agents in an organization, this...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Managers in Flat Organizations, How Do You Make the Call?
- It can be difficult to clarify your responsibilities when you're a manager in a horizontal organization (and also exhausting to manage an increasing number of subordinates -- a common consequence of flattening). If you enter a company that's been operating accordingly for quite some time, it may be a little easier. But if you find...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Process Management Improves The Horizontal Flow
- Functionally managed organizations reduce organization performance levels while increasing cycle times and costs by fostering an "us-versus-them" approach to communications and fighting for organizational resources, leaving unmanaged gaps between departments which disrupt cross-functional work processes, making improvements or changes in one department which hurts the effectiveness of other departments in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Virtual Teaming: A Strategy for Moving Your Organization Into the New Millennium
- The concept of teams and teamwork is increasingly becoming an important key to productivity and employee satisfaction in the contemporary workplace. This paper looks at the concept of teams and teamwork and several innovative ways of using teams. Among the innovative ways of using teams are globally networked teams, team-based...
- White papers 2000-11-16
- HNC Software Names Former Novell Executive as Chief Operating Officer; Executive Team to Drive Growth Through Horizontal Organization Structure
- Business Editors & High-Tech Writers
- Research articles 2001-04-26
- Originator of the ``Horizontal Organization'' Joins Deloitte & Touche
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2000-03-27
- Other Titles Of Interest
- In The Horizontal Organization Oxford University Press, management consultant Frank Ostroff traces the future evolution of business structures. The top-down hierarchy, a pillar of business since the Industrial Revolution, has become obsolete and no longer responds to the new requirements of the business world. Ostroff explains how bureaucracy can be...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Establishing a Strategic Partnering Relationship
- Strategic partnership agreements—whether short- or long-term—allow organizations to take advantage of market opportunities and respond to customer needs in collaboration, doing it more efficiently and effectively than they could alone."Collaboration is the process by which partners adopt a high level of purposeful cooperation to maintain a trading relationship over time....
- Articles 2007-11-19
- Understanding Matrix Management
- Matrix management is a system based on multiple employee reporting structures. It emphasizes both "vertical" organizational hierarchy and "horizontal" relationships. In other words, any employee within a matrix organization reports upwards to superiors and, based on geographic requirements, may also report sideways to peers. It came about as organizations recognized...
- Articles 2007-04-23
- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Presenting With Visuals
- When creating a presentation, the most important thing to remember is that all written or visual material serves only one purpose—to emphasize what the presenter is saying. Many people think that it's necessary to produce an extensive visual presentation containing all the information being discussed. This is not the case,...
- Articles 2007-10-17
- Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
- Your company is continuously creating new generations of products, services, and business processes. These innovations require seamless collaboration across your firm's different parts. But in most large corporations, innovation and integration are unnatural acts. Resistance stifles...
- Articles 2008-12-10
- Building an Alliance with Your Boss
- Does your work life seem like a Dilbert cartoon? Career ladders are often populated with superiors like Dilbert's, who are anything but the ideal manager. Inept, disorganized, power hungry, or downright mean—bad bosses come in all sizes and shapes. Often, they're so busy with their own careers that they're blind...
- Articles 2007-10-09
- Sales Culture: Interview with Michael Dell
- This morning's post "QUIZ: Assess Your Sales Team's Culture" explained why sales culture is so important. Some of the ideas behind that post came from a conversation I had a while back with Michael Dell, the founder/CEO of Dell Computer. In this never-before-published interview, Michael discusses the culture he tried...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Matrix Management: Method, Not Magic
- A matrix is something within which something else originates or develops. The relevance of this definition to matrix management is that the matrix matters less than the projects or multidisciplinary processes, which emerge from this approach to organization and management. Matrix management is not a metaphysical experience. Its profundity is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Structural Analysis of Manufacturer Pricing in the Presence of a Strategic Retailer
- Consumer goods manufacturers usually sell their brands to consumers through common independent retailers. Theoretical research on such channel structures has analyzed the optimal behavior of channel members under alternative assumptions of manufacturer-retailer interaction Vertical Strategic Interaction. Research in Empirical Industrial Organization has focused on analyzing the competitive interactions between manufacturers...
- White papers 2001-09-20
- National Oilwell Varco, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you Sir. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question is from Jim [inaudible] with Lehman Brothers. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst – Lehman Brothers Good morning and nice quarter. Clay C. Williams – Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Thanks Jim...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Building Flexible Marketing Teams with Resourcing
- Sometimes marketing managers need skills and resources not available from their own teams. Resourcing—hiring people for a fixed period of time—can provide a flexible alternative to recruiting new staff or retraining your current employees. It's ideal for providing diverse or specialist skills on a short or mid-term basis for projects...
- Articles 2007-10-30
- Mergers
- A merger is a transaction that results in a wholly new organization formed due to the merging of two or more organization/s. There are three types of mergers viz. horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate. Organizations merge and form a single entity to achieve economies of scale, widen their reach, acquire strategic...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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