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MODULAR ORGANIZATION [3 records]

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Record 1 2014-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Theory
  • Emergency Management
CONT

Modular organization : The incident command organizational structure develops in a modular fashion that is based on the size and complexity of the incident, as well as the specifics of the hazard environment created by the incident.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories de la gestion
  • Gestion des urgences
CONT

Le plan ORSEC [Organisation des secours] — Nouvelle organisation modulaire (selon les circonstances), progressive (selon l'ampleur), adaptée (selon les risques) et adaptable (selon la situation). Les dispositions spécifiques développent les particularités propres aux risques identifiés, notamment les effets des risques, les scénarios, les contre-mesures adaptées, les mesures spécifiques d'alerte des populations riveraines selon les dangers ou les actes réflexes des services intervenants.

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Structure
  • Productivity and Profitability
CONT

The open networked organization is based on cooperative, multidisciplinary teams and businesses networked together across the enterprise. Rather than a rigid structure, it is a modular organizational architecture in which business teams operate as a network of... client and server functions.... As servers, they receive requests or directions from clients,... and add value for the purpose of serving these clients. The new model is derived from Michael Porter's concept of "value chain, "but extended into the notion of a value network--reflecting the rise of the open networked enterprise.... The provision of value is not something chained in a linear way, but rather generated through an ever-changing open network. It is a model designed to encourage flexibility, innovation, entrepreneurship, and responsiveness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Structures de l'entreprise
  • Productivité et rentabilité

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Structure
CONT

The open networked organization is based on co-operative, multidisciplinary teams and businesses networked together across the enterprise. Rather than a rigid structure, it is a modular organizational architecture in which business teams operate as a network of... client and server functions. Teams are both clients and servers for other teams, who are both internal and external to the organization.... It is a model designed to encourage flexibility, innovation, entrepreneurship, and responsiveness.

OBS

a new form of corporate structure that is replacing the traditional hierarchical structure. (Based on TAPIT, 1993, p. 33.)

OBS

The new organization has many other names. ... Peter Drucker calls it the networked organization. For Rosabeth Moss Kanter, it’s dancing elephants. For Peter Keen, it’s the relational organization. For Tom Peters, it’s life without hierarchy. For D. Quinn Mills, it’s the cluster organization. Charles Savage calls it human networking.

Key term(s)
  • open networked organisation
  • relational organisation
  • cluster organisation
  • networked organisation
  • open-networked organization
  • open-networked organisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Structures de l'entreprise

Spanish

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