Should Structure Follow Strategy?

      
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		            		Salah, Sweden
			            
Should Structure Follow Strategy?

	          		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" ...

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						            	Aditi, India
												
				                What comes first: strategy or structure?

													According to me, every organisation does follow certain rules and regulations in a disciplined manner. Therefore, structure normally follows strategy. We can say, strategy and structure are co-related and are interdependent.
				                
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						            	Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
												
				                Structure Follows Strategy. But Often Too Slowly..

													A frequent problem with structure following (changes in) strategy is that often this happens too slowly.

Because of inertia, unwillingness and many other motives to resist change. You can witness quite often that an organizational crisis and turnaround management are needed to finally make the organizational structure change happen.
				                
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						            	Mariano Talanchuk
HR Consultant, Argentina
												
				                Speed of Changes of Structures

													Formal structures change slowly, because informal structures change slowly too (habits, traditions, ... Sign up
				              
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						            	trent hosen, Trinidad
												
				                Structure versus Strategy

													In my country (Trinidad), structure for most times comes before strategy, because in most organisati... Sign up
				              
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						            	Nathan Caswell
Business Consultant, United States
												
				                Structure and Strategy

													Structure and Strategy are architectural Form and Function. In material architectures, there is a st... Sign up
				              
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						            	Onyangore Peter Ogendi
Teacher, Kenya
												
				                Without Strategy There's no Need for Structure

													Colleagues, it's strategy that gives birth to structure. You can have very good set structures but w... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ramon Reyes
Saudi Arabia
												
				                Should Structure Follow Strategy?

													I don't think so.
The reason why I have the strategy is because I have the structure.
If I would l... Sign up
				              
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						            	Charles P. Keith
Management Consultant, United States
												
				                Strategy or Structure First ⇒ How can we Build Flexible Organization Structures?

													@Ramon Reyes: I would add that the question of strategy or structure first is an iterative question.... Sign up
				              
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						            	rajat baisya
Professor, India
												
				                Structure and Strategy

													In my opinion strategy should precede structure and thus structure must follow strategy. A structure... Sign up
				              
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						            	Robert Gerth
Project Manager, Sweden
												
				                Does Structure Follow Strategy?

													My experience is that in practice juvenile, entrepreneurial organizations tend to start with strateg... Sign up
				              
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						            	david suirara
Student (MBA), Solomon Islands
												
				                Does Structure Follow Strategy or Does Strategy Follow Structure

													I agree with the view that structure should follow strategies. But in most public institutions "fund... Sign up
				              
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						            	Melanie Keizer
Canada
												
				                Structure Follows Strategy

													The structure should follow the strategy; the structure is one of the vehicles through which the str... Sign up
				              
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