101. A General Model of Organizational Architecture
Concept
Edwards Deming,23 the famous system designer who was widely accepted in Japan before his approach became popular in the United States, once said, “Every organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it’s producing.” One of the principles of this volume is that executive managers need robust frameworks that are easy to remember, powerful in application, and flexible enough to incorporate new insights. Here, I offer another such framework, a model of how to think about the huge field of organizational design and architecture. I will introduce the framework here and then offer some details in subsequent chapters—one concept per chapter.24
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