- Different aspects of solution development, manufacturing,
sales and support require conflicting approaches
- Typically the organizational coalition must mask these
conflicts by functionalizing the different aspects
- Functional organizations:
- Allow replication of structures and application of
business models and infrastructure across the
operations. This supports alignment of the overall
network.
- Enable recombination operations, through which the
enterprise can look for equivalent situations across its
businesses and then select high achievers, from this pool
of functional equivalents to fill a key or troubled role
- Hierarchies
enable silos