Chapter 15. The Boundaryless Organization: Rising to the Challenges of Global Leadership
Ron Ashkenas
David Ulrich
Todd Jick
Steve Kerr
Twenty-first-century business is in the midst of a social and economic revolution, shifting from rigid to permeable structures and processes and creating something new: the boundaryless organization.
Consider these developments, once unimaginable:
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals has cut months out of the drug development process by replacing sequential clinical data collection, analysis, and regulatory reporting with cross-functional teams composed of statisticians, biometricians, clinical trials experts, data management experts, and others.
General Electric managers routinely have fifteen to twenty direct reports. Often, ...
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