Managing Corporate Social Networks
Big companies are good at innovating within silos, but woefully bad at combining creative energies across divisions to build new businesses. The problem, we believe, is structural: Business-unit boundaries exist precisely because they create efficient structures for executing strategy. But silo focus and ruthless efficiency come at the cost of cross-divisional collaboration, so some innovation opportunities are either poorly executed or not seen at all. … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Michael L. Tushman | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior