As AI automates more knowledge work, the organizations that thrive will be those that master human relationships. Matrix organizations present well-known challenges: difficulty influencing across ...

Organizational structure is one of the keys to maximizing efficiency and productivity at your workplace, and it can have tangential benefits such as boosting employee motivation. Unlike a traditional ...

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The integration mechanism in a matrix organizational design has four components. Standardization makes organizational units operate the same way. Regulations formalize how to take action. Common goals ...

Matrix management only works with strong leadership and alignment. Otherwise it causes problems that the pressures of a bad economy can cause to fracture altogether. I’m curious to hear your thoughts ...

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 ...