Leadership and Business Wisdom - Simulated Decentralization.

Byline: S. Kamal Hayder Kazmi

The main rule is to look simulated decentralization as a last resort only.

Whenever a unit can be set up as a business, no design principle can match federal decentralization. We have learned, however, that a great many large companies cannot be divided into genuine businesses. Yet they have clearly outgrown the limits of size and complexity of the functional or of the team structure. These are the companies that are increasingly turning to "simulated decentralization" as the answer to their organization problem. Simulated decentralization forms structural units that are not businesses but which are still up as if they were businesses, with maximum possible autonomy, with their own...