Time for the big small company
With speed increasingly seen as the key to competitive advantage, the dream is to many the control of an established company with the responsiveness of a start-up.As Linda Applegate reports in IT naow mean that the "big small" company is finally feasible.
In the hierarvhical companies of the 1960s and 1970s, information moved slowly and channels of communication were limited. Over the past years, however,large companies have come under ever-increasing pressure to collect,process and distribute information more quickiy in order to compete with smaller,more nimble nvals.The key callenge facing and sizeable organization today is how to achieve responsiveness without losing the control inherent in a hierachical structure.
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