CHAPTER 5MANAGING MULTIPLE-LOCATION SYSTEMS THROUGH REGIONAL CENTERS
The CEO of one state department of agriculture, for example, had found that even regional structures were too large, too amorphous, and had moved towards smaller, autonomous district units. His metaphor said everything: I don’t run a ship: I run a flotilla! The problem with such chunking is that it can lead to decoupling. Top managers throughout the West were beginning to face the same persistent problem: what do you do after the consultant has been through your organization, chopped away at the corporate headquarters and flattened the hierarchy?
How do you get efficiencies and synergy now?
DAVID LIMERICK AND BERT CUNNINGTON
In general, regions are created around the markets ...
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