PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lean Manufacturing, Habitat, Business Intelligence
Document Summary
Organization theory: the impact of environment and interorganizational relationship. Technology and structure must be (re-)aligned with organizational strategy to meet changing needs and provide new competitive advantages. New flexible manufacturing systems and lean manufacturing are adopted by organizations and have an impact on their design. Service technologies differ in a systematic way from manufacturing technologies. The need for interdependence among departments increases the demand for the right technical tools for communication and collaboration. Organizational ecosystem = a system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment. Inter-organizational relationship = resource transactions, flows and linkages that accour among two or more organizations. All the elements that exist outside the boundary of the organization. Potential to affect all or part of the organization. Domain is the chosen environmental field of action. Sectors or subdivisions that contain similar elements. The organization environment is changing on two dimensions. Simple-complex: heterogeneity, the dissimilarity of external elements.
