case is a classic example of the result of a decentralized governance of business units. What happened to CISCO due to the decentralized governance‚ how the business processes were modified to overcome the chaos created by the decentralized governance and how the employees and management reacted to this change in CISCO’s business governance? This case clearly illustrates the effect of a totally decentralized governance and how changing to a centralized governance leads to unrest and resistance. It
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both centralized structure and decentralized structure. The advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus decentralized organizational structures lies greatly in the inherent qualities and effects of the structures themselves. If top managers make the organization’s key decisions with little or no input from below‚ then the organization is centralized. Companies which wish to consolidate power and decision-making abilities at the top of the organizational chart‚ tend to be centralized organizations
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|management and resources raising to the subunits of the | | |organization. | |A centralized organization is defined as one in which store |A decentralized organization gives freedom to store managers to | |practices are mandated from corporate headquarters (HQ) and this |adopt their own ideas and disseminates innovations made by the | |results in HQ being the
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Buildings Managers‚ Cinema Managers (in each country) and Cinema Staff. 3. Outline three drawbacks of a centralized structure in this business. [6] A centralized structure is a management structure where decision making is done at higher levels by those with a strong position that includes having combined considerable knowledge and information about what needs to be done. In a centralized organization‚ decisions made by higher management are typically communicated to lower organizational levels who
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Matsushita. Philips: Problematic relation between product divisions (PD) and national organizations (NO)- responsibility issue‚ lower speed of reaction; NO had the real power and independency (power struggle issue) Matshushita- difficulties with too centralized organization * Improving control systems: Lower morale among middle management caused by cutting costs and layoffs policy as well as by standardization (ignoring new worldwide market demands for more segmented products and higher consumers’
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provides street maps and directions. A Google Maps component can be added to a business’s web site to provide customers directions to the business location. This use of Google’s service by a business is an example of __________. a) Centralized architecture b) Decentralized architecture c) Service-oriented architecture d) Internet-based architecture e) Enterprise architecture Ans: c (Medium) Response: See page 174 3. Valero’s growth required a change to its IT architecture. SOA was chosen by Valero
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LECTURE 7 * What 3 things must be present for communication to occur? * Transmission media‚ data transmission‚ cooperation * Define Bandwidth * Amount of data can be transferred from one point to another in a certain time * Define attenuation * Loss of power in a signal as it travels from sending device to receiving device * What is a protocol and why is it important in electronic communication? * Rules governing data communication including error detection
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Discussion Questions A Decade of Organizational Change at Unilever What did Unilever’s decentralized organizational structure make sense from the 1950s through the 1970s? Why did this structure start to create problems for the company in the 1980s. Discussion Question # 1 What was Unilever trying to do when it introduced a new structure based on business groups in the mid-1990s? Why do you think that this structure failed to cure Unilever’s ills? Discussion Question #2 In the 2000s Unilever has switched
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that expressed harsh laws while Confucianism had a decentralized government‚ placing trust in conscientious and learned individuals to work together to solve political issues. These two schools of thought were in stark contrast to each other and‚ up until the Han dynasty‚ had never been combined with each other through government policy. The Qin dynasty‚ for example implemented a strict Legalist government while the Zhou dynasty applied a decentralized Confucianist government‚ which‚ as with the Qin
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Based on the above timeline‚ Eaton’s demise started as early as 1952‚ when Sears joined forces with Eaton’s main competitor at the time‚ Simpsons. The Simpson’s-Sears venture proved to be effective‚ as Sears brought their expertise from operating in the US for many years and quickly established new stores in the suburbs which tended to be the growth part for most communities. The stores were new and modern. Eaton’s management had failed to respond to its competitors actions of locating their stores
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