WorkTrends

It’s easy to put off the future until tomorrow. Heck, for many companies, waiting is a part of their strategy. These are industry followers who consciously sit back and watch their competitors implement new technologies and operations. They don’t want to be on the “bleeding edge,” or so far out in front of the leading edge that they make mistakes.

Have you taken a good look at your company’s organizational structure lately? What’s changed? Not a thing? How is that possible? It is amazing that the hierarchical organizational structures of the past remain intact today, even as the people and the functions they represent continue to change and evolve. New technologies boast full integration of data. Yet in many companies today, there is no cross-functional organizational structure to support such technologies. Hierarchical structures are reliable, but they are also rigid and restrictive.‍