How can you optimally configure organizational units to drive change and achieve goals? This is one of the key questions 15.320 Strategic Organizational Design looks to answer. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Thomas Malone
MIT Course Number
15.320
As Taught In
Spring 2011
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
15.320 Strategic Organizational Design focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative organizations, with special emphasis on innovative organizational forms that can provide strategic advantage. Topics include when to use functional, divisional, or matrix organizations, how IT creates new organizational possibilities, and examples of innovative organizational possibilities, such as democratic decision-making, crowd-based organizations, internal resource markets, and other forms of collective intelligence. Team projects include inventing new possibilities for real organizations.