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	              Should Structure Follow Strategy?

                Salah

                When you're creating organization charts, you'll often have to deal with the eternal question: Does structure follow strategy or does strategy follow structure ?

But you have to refine it and relate it to "organisational effectiveness" ...

Thanks folks !
            
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