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Entries from March 2009

Matrix management gone too far?

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the common problems we see in our matrix management training and consulting is that matrix management is taken too far down the organization.

We worked with a financial services organization last year who wanted to implement matrix management in an organization of 1500 people. By the time we had identified the people who had [...]

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Matrix management in the world’s most admired companies

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Fortune magazine has released its twelfth annual rankings of FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies (WMACs). Many of them are our clients so it is good to see their success recognized.
This year’s they also looked at how organizational design and operating models help WMACs build more effective organizations than their peers.
They found a wide range of [...]

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Matrix Management presentation

March 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

We are getting a lot of searches coming to the blog looking for a matrix management presentation.  Several are browsing the catogiries but not finding the specific materials that may be of most help in building a matrix management presentation.
Have a look at the matrix management presentation on our sister site Global Integration. It covers [...]

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