Organizing for creativity, quality and speed in product creation processes
✍ Scribed by Frans. M. van Eijnatten; Lianne W. L. Simonse
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0748-8017
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✦ Synopsis
Current research in industrial engineering and management sciences shows that organizational architectures are of critical importance for a better performance of product creation processes in terms of creativity, quality and speed. For many companies, streamlining those processes-including engineering-is of vital importance for their survival in a global and turbulent marketplace. However, the most commonly used solution-the matrix structure-does not support this effort sufficiently. Based on diagnoses of both problems and solutions in 11 industrial companies in the Netherlands and the United States, a new configuration emerged: an organizational arrangement consisting of several temporary team network organizations, one for each product creation project, to be drawn from a sustainable pool of professionals representing multiple competencies. This novel, dynamic organizational architecture is clarified in terms of its opportunities for improved creativity, quality and speed, using chaordic systems thinking as a lens.