The 3 functional leader tasks Six years ago, I wrote (with colleague Jennifer Riel) a Harvard Business Review article on functional strategy. But the questions about functional strategy keep coming ...

An organization's structure determines the way employees and jobs are arranged to meet its needs and objectives. In a functional structure, employees are departmentalized by task similarity, and ...

The "Functional-Hierarchic" organization is commonly called the "Matrix" organization. While often over-theorized, the Matrix is an attempt to introduce flexibility into rigid and bureaucratic ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that companies need to have professional managers, who are mainly tasked with managing the people who do the actual ...