The Aperture for Modern CEOs

Appendix

Organizational Structures

“Hub and Spoke”: organizes around hubs in diverse regions to specialize in major functions, rather than having a single headquarters for all significant decisions. With no designated headquarters office, a multicultural management team is free to convene wherever and whenever it makes the most sense.

Organic: centers on project teams made up of a variety of disciplines and are typified by wide spans of control, decentralization, low or high specialization and formalization, and loose departmentalization and chain of command. This type of structure is proving itself as agility is enhanced, and the organization’s ability to deal equally with disruption and innovation is more effective.

Circular: akin to a fishbowl ...