Challenges and Strategies of Matrix Organizations: Top-Level and Mid-Level Managers’ Perspectives Thomas Sy‚ College of Business Administration‚ California State University‚ Long Beach; Laura Sue D’Annunzio‚ A.T. Kearney Inc. U sing surveys‚ inter- views‚ and workshops with 294 toplevel and mid-level managers from seven major multinational corporations in six industries‚ we identified the top five contemporary challenges of the matrix organizational form: (1) misaligned goals
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11/18/2007 Online Social Networks and E-Commerce Their Threats to Privacy and a Proposal for a New Blanket Privacy Policy and Accountability Infrastructure for Consumer Online Privacy Clarence Lee and Shirley Fung Clarence Lee and Shirley Fung Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................6 Background...............................................................................
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GROWTH STRATEGIES Ansoff Matrix - 4 STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH The Ansoff Growth matrix is a tool that helps businesses decide their product and market growth strategy. Ansoff’s product/market growth matrix suggests that a business’ attempts to grow depend on whether it markets new or existing products in new or existing markets. The output from the Ansoff product/market matrix is a series of suggested growth strategies for the business and helps them decide what direction the business wants to take
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Stars I have categorized iPhone and iPod in Star category which means they both need further investment in product development and there are greater opportunities available in the marketfor growth. Latest figures reveal that the growth rate for iPods is currently 28% and for thoseof iPhone’s its 48%.Apple enjoys 60% more market share in iPod than its closest rivalScandisk in the market. In iPhone’s‚ Apple is not the market leader but has 28% market sharewhere manufacturer of Blackberry RIM has 41%
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research and development‚ finance and the likes to ensure that‚ outputs of the scientific process i.e. finished products reach the final markets and customers. In response to the complex nature of Syngenta’s operations‚ the company makes use of a matrix management structure where it draws on the expertise‚ skills‚
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Directional Policy Matrix 1. Introduction Many large companies comprise several distinct divisions or strategic business units (SBUs). So one of the challenges facing the parent company of a multi-divisional company is to allocate resources to each division. So in order to make wise decisions on resource allocation‚ is there a tool that can assist senior executives determine the direction for each division or SBU? Actually there are two tools‚ the BCG matrix and the Directional Policy Matrix (DPM). We have
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11.3) Advantages of matrix organization The matrix organizational structure divides authority both by functional area and by project. In a matrix structure‚ each employee answers to two immediate supervisors: a functional supervisor and a project supervisor. The functional supervisor is charged with overseeing employees in a functional area such asmarketing or engineering. Project supervisors manage a specific and often impermanent project. They absorb employees from various functional areas to
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GE _ McKinsey Matrix QuickMBA / Strategy / GE-McKinsey Matrix GE / McKinsey Matrix In consulting engagements with General Electric in the 1970’s‚ McKinsey & Company developed a nine-cell portfolio matrix as a tool for screening GE’s large portfolio of strategic business units (SBU). This business screen became known as the GE/McKinsey Matrix and is shown below: GE / McKinsey Matrix Business Unit Strength High High Medium Low Medium Low The GE / McKinsey matrix is similar to the
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Service-process Matrix The Service Process Matrix is a classification matrix of service industry firms based on the characteristics of the individual firm’s service processes. The matrix was derived by Roger Schmenner and first appeared in 1986. Although considerably different‚ the Service Process Matrix can be seen somewhat as a service industry version of Wheelwright and Hayes’ Product-Process Matrix. The Service Process Matrix can be useful when investigating the strategic changes in service
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