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Align the Architecture: Creating Organizational Gravity

Why does it feel like it flows like the tides some days and other days it’s just a total struggle?

Ron Dickerson, former VP and GM at Nucor

A Tale of Two Production Lines

Bad Architecture…

A manufacturing facility we worked with had identified and engineered a change to a production line that would cut costs and improve productivity. The organization was marginally profitable, so this was an important win for them.

The production line change was relatively simple and could be accomplished over a weekend. Yet the project was delayed multiple times over the next several months. Many people inside the organization were confused why a simple change was taking months to complete. When ...

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