Adhocracy as a Design Option for Innovation and Learning
Information Technology and Organizational Design
Using Networks and Alliances
100
The combination of resources, knowledge, and techniques that creates a product or service output for an organization.
What is Operations Technology?
100
Few rules, policies, and procedures, substantial decentralization, shared decision making among members, extreme horizontal specialization, few levels of management, and virtually no formal controls.
What are the characteristics of Adhocracy?
100
These are virtually inseparable, and they have fundamentally changed the organizational design
What are IT, the web and the computer
100
A group of business with common interest and goals.
What is a Network?
200
The combination of machines, artifacts, procedures, and systems used to gather, store, analyze, and disseminate information for translating it into knowledge.
What is Information Technology?
200
The tasks facing the firm vary considerably and provide many exceptions, as in a management consulting firm, or Problems are difficult to define and resolve.
What are the two sticky problems of adhocracy?
200
Efficient production through specialization and through information management
What is IT as a Substitute?
200
Cooperative agreements or joint ventures between two independent firms.
What is Interfirm Alliances?
300
Classified technologies based on the degree to which the technology could be specified and the degree of interdependence among the work activities with categories called intensive, mediating, and long-linked.
What is James D. Thompson's View of Technology?
300
Many managers are reluctant to adopt this form because they appear to lose control of day-to-day operations
Why is Adhocracy Notoriously inefficient?
300
CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing) combined became advanced manufacturing technology with IT
What is IT as a capability?
300
Mostly common in high tech industries such as robotics and advanced information systems.
What are Alliances?
400
This person divides technology into three categories: small-batch production, mass production, and continuous process technologies.
What is Woodward's View of Technology?
400
Emphasizes innovation and learning
What is the Design of Adhocracy?
400
Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C), a new set of firms that have evolved with IT at the core of their operations
What is The Virtual Organization and IT Opportunities?
400
Customers, suppliers, employees, and business partners to stay informed and keep up-to-date as to changes in the market.
What is the Personal Engagement Across Value Chain?
500
Technologies used in a hospital emergency room or a research and development laboratory
What is Intensive Technology
500
Shared, decentralized decision making
What is Adhocracy?
500
An ever shifting constellation of firms, with a lead corporation, that pools skillsm resources, and experiences to thrive jointly.
What is Virtual Organization?
500
These three areas where companies can benefit from forming network and alliances.
What is Personal Engagement Across Value Chain, Intelligence Gathered From The Network, and The Emergence of Commerce Graph?