Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage (edX)

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Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage (edX)
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Basic knowledge of business is necessary and some experience in being part of an organization or running an organization is ideal.
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Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage (edX)
Learn how to design control systems, decision-making processes and a culture that enables value creation and the development of sustainable competitive advantage. In order to sustain themselves, organizations need to compete for scarce resources both in input and output markets. Because of this organizations need to create some kind of competitive advantage.

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In this business and management course, suitable for managers and leaders in midsize to large organizations, you will learn the principles of organizational design and how design elements can be leveraged to gain competitive advantage. We will discuss various organizational structures and how an effective organizational design can help achieve a company’s goals and objectives in a sustainable manner. Since organizations involve collaborative activities, you’ll also learn how to create suitable control systems, decision-making processes and culture and reporting relationships to ensure that the efforts of a diverse set of employees are suitably coordinated to achieve the organizational purpose.




What you'll learn

- Interrelationship between an organization’s strategy and structure

- Effective use of control systems

- How to achieve Competitive advantage through different designs

- Structural alternatives such as functional, divisional and matrix

- Structural tradeoffs such as centralization, formalization and complexity

- How to manage structural change


Course Syllabus


Week 1 :

Interrelationship between organization structure and strategy

Case used – Joy of Running

Relationship between organizations and markets

Control systems in organizations

Case used – Cunningham Motors


Week 2:

Leveraging specialization in organization design

Competitive advantage achieved through different designs

Case discussion of Ford Motors Company and General Motors


Week 3:

Strategic outsourcing

Decision making framework for outsourcing

Variety versus scale tradeoff


Week 4:

Different Organization Structures – functional, divisional and Matrix

Case discussion of a Consumer Durables Company having a hybrid structure

Structural tradeoffs – complexity, formalization and centralization


Week 5:

Mechanistic and Organic designs

Case discussion of Acme and Omega


Week 6:

How to manage structural change

Case used – VFM Solutions

Putting it all together



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Course Auditing
45.00 EUR
Basic knowledge of business is necessary and some experience in being part of an organization or running an organization is ideal.

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