Life in a Matrix

In this podcast we focus on managing complexity within the HR function.
Many HR organizations have adopted some version of the Ulrich model with a system of business partners, specialists and (often outsourced) service centres for transactional activities. This has introduced a much more complex internal matrix structure within the HR function.
As a result HR people [...]

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Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs said yesterday: “The industry let the growth and complexity in new instruments outstrip their economic and social utility as well as the operational capacity to manage them.” (My emphasis)
It is clear that financial instruments became too complex to manage? By one estimate I saw it would have taken [...]

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