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Matrix Management and Career Advancement/ Job Search
Matrix management-related developments are monitored closely here at Strategic Futures. One good source of information is Google Alerts, a resource one can access and subscribe to on www.google.com....
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Job Design in Matrix Management
In recent months, we have had multiple opportunities to assist clients with the design of key jobs in their matrix organizations. These clients have included an energy engineering consulting...
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A Key Benefit of Matrix Management: Scalability
Why are more organizations choosing matrix management? The answer that we are hearing most frequently relates to scalability. Often, the objective is to add new locations that are functioning as...
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Matrix Management, Personality Clashes, and Darwinian Management™
In the matrix organization, personality issues hemorrhage in to fill gaps created by structural ambiguities. This also happens in traditional hierarchical structures, but that is not our focus here....
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Matrix Management Problems & Misdirected Animosity
We monitor the Google Alerts for matrix management and, from time to time, note various blogs which deprecate matrix management on the basis of bad experiences that people have had with it—as if no...
View ArticleMatrix Management and Organizational Dexterity: Method, Not Magic
Matrix management provides a pathway to organizational dexterity. Why does that matter? In 2010, IBM conducted its Global CEO Study. More than 1500 CEOs in 60 countries and 33 industries expressed...
View ArticleSolid Line/Dotted Line: Is that ‘Nuff Said?
Matrix organizations are sometimes described in terms of solid line and dotted line relationships. The solid line/dotted line terminology can be useful shorthand, but only after the more tedious work...
View ArticleMatrix Management Fumbles, Fizzles and Foibles
Cross-functional teams pass the baton of work-in-progress back and forth across functions with regularity. Hopefully, they do it with synergy and in a way that avoids fumbles and fizzles that require...
View ArticleMatrix Management and Collaborative Communities
Matrix management presupposes collaborative communities, both within our organizations and among them when they are involved in strategic alliances and other multi-firm endeavors. Indeed, academic...
View ArticleMatrix Management: Walk Before You Run
I first wrote “Life in the Matrix” in 2000 — well before the emergence of flattering imitation. This brief, easy-to-read pamphlet was introduced expressly for employees who are given matrix assignments...
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