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Engineering of Organizations: A Template

Engineering of Organizations: A Template. Shyam Sunder International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop Yale School of Management September 30, 2008. An Overview. A Template for Organizational Engineering An idea Resources: inputs and outputs People: what each gives and wants

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Engineering of Organizations: A Template

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  1. Engineering of Organizations: A Template Shyam Sunder International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop Yale School of Management September 30, 2008

  2. An Overview • A Template for Organizational Engineering • An idea • Resources: inputs and outputs • People: what each gives and wants • Advantage to all • Good governance • Sustainability under stress • Change and transition (re-engineering) • Let us try this out, and develop it as we try Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  3. The Idea • The idea originates with the entrepreneur: a way of meeting an unmet demand or utilizing one or more wasted resource(s) in a way that would make all participants better off • The initial idea rarely survives in final form • All entrepreneurs need to revisit and refine the initial idea many times through iterations until it works • Template may help us refine the idea Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  4. Resources: inputs and outputs • What will be the output(s) of the organization (i.e., anything that anyone may want from it)? • What inputs does the organization need (all those things for which we need to find a supplier) Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  5. People: what they want and are willing to give • For each input, list one or more prospective supplier • For each output, list one or more prospect who would want to have it • If the list cannot be completed, go to an earlier step and revise it Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  6. Advantage to all • Make a list of all participants (from previous page) • For each participant, list the contribution and entitlement • Check if for each participant, what they get is valued as much or more than what they contribute • If not, what changes are necessary to make the participation advantageous to every person on the list? • If there is no way of satisfying the condition, go to an earlier step and revise it Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  7. Governance • Good governance: It is in each participant’s interest to do what the other participants expect him/her to do in various circumstances • How can we organize the environment of each participant to fulfill the good governance criterion? • If such an environment cannot be designed, go to an earlier step and revise Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  8. Sustainability under stress • What are the jolts that could shake the organization? • How big a jolt can the organization survive (i.e., not violate the “advantage for all” condition) • What can be done to: • Avoid the jolts • Increase capacity to withstand larger jolts • Plan for disaster (pick up the pieces) Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

  9. Change and transition (re-engineering) • Which changes in the environment threaten the balance you have achieved in the organization (people, resources, technology, expectations) • There are inevitable changes that make the organization infeasible • Go to an earlier step to re-engineer: • New arrangements, expectations • New or different resources • New or different people • New or different idea Sunder: Engineering Organizations (c)

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