Life in a Matrix

One of the key reasons that companies introduce a matrix organization structure is to break down the traditional vertical “silos” that characterised past, less integrated organizations.
But the legacy systems, relationships and rewards often get in the way of developing matrix and virtual teams that cut across these silos.
In the early days of matrix and virtual [...]

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In this podcast Kevan Hall, CEO of Global Integration, discusses cross cultural skills development. In complex organizations, working with multicultural teams and colleagues has become “business as usual”.
As a result cross cultural skills development needs to be much more embedded in everyday people processes at a deeper level in the orgnaization and needs to be [...]

 Cross cultural skills development - Life in a Matrix Podcast Episode 6 [8:50m]: Download

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Designing Matrix Organizations that actually work is a very welcome addition to the rather limited literature available on matrix organizations and how they work.
It contains many examples of how organizations like IBM and P&G choose to structure their matrix organizations. For me it’s most useful contribution is to explain why they chose to vest different [...]

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