Chunking and Hiving
Pubblic organizations work best when they have one clear mission.unfortunately governments tend to load several different-and often conflicting-mission on each agency as the year go by in1989 Representatives Lee Hamilton and Benjamin Gilman reported that Congress had given the Agency for international Develoment (AID) 33 objectives 75 priorities and 288 reporting requirements.Among its 33 mission to win friend in the developing wold to feed the hungry to counter initiatives of the soviet union to dispose of u.s. agricultural surpluses to build democratic institution and to strengthen the American land grant college system and the historically black colleges and universities No wonder AID had fail in is primary mission to stimulate economicd evelopment in the Third Wold
In a wold of niche markets, the problem become even more intense.Historically most public instution have been designed to serve mass markets the schools to educate all children the postal service to deliver all the mail Today we need institutions whose mission is to serve one niche Doug ross who ran the Michigan Department of Commerce during the 1980s confronted this reality head on He gave each one great autonomy-infact he spun off several as separate organizations –and he encouraged each one to develop its own mission statement.
Peters and Waterman called this chunking(breaking large organizations up into small grops) and hiving(spinning off new teams and organization)