BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES
Organizational strategy includes the organization's design as well as the choices it makes to define, and control its work processes. The organizational strategy is a plan that answers the question: "How will the company organize in order to achieve its goals and implement its business strategy? A few of the many models of organizational strategy are reviewed in this section.
A simple framework for understanding the design of an organization is the business diamond, introduced by Leavitt and embellished by Hammer and Champy Shown in Figure 1.6, the business diamond identifies the crucial components of an organization's plan as its business processes its values and beliefs, its management control systems, and its tasks and structures. This simple framework is useful for designing new organizations and for diagnosing organizational troubles. For example, organizations that try to change their cultures but fail to change the way they manage and control cannot be effective.