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Organization by activityThis type of organization structure focuses on the fact that similar activities have to be performed on all technologies in the organization. This means that people who perform similar activities, regardless of the technology, should be grouped together, although within each department there may be teams focusing on a specific technology, application, etc. In this type of organization, there is no clear differentiation between the different Technical and Application Management areas. Similar activities from many different areas can be grouped into a single department. Examples of departments that have been set up to perform a specific set of activities across multiple technologies include:
The Operations Strategy and Planning department is used to illustrate this type of structure in Figure 6.8. Figure 6.8 A department based on executing a set of activities The advantages of this type of organizational structure include the following.
The disadvantages of this type of organizational structure include the following.
Date: 2014-12-29; view: 1313
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