Organizational Structure and Strategic Change: A Case Analysis of IBM's Transformational Redesign
Overview
This case analysis examines IBM's transformational organizational change, analyzing how the company restructured to support new strategic goals. The analysis applies organizational theory and design concepts including organizational lifecycle models, change management frameworks, and structure-strategy alignment to evaluate IBM's change approach.
What this case study covers
- Organization description and goals
- Identification of change challenges and structural modifications required
- Analysis of how new organizational structure supports strategy
- Application of organizational lifecycle concepts to IBM
- Change management model analysis using Experience Change Model
- Overall assessment of change approach
Preview
Late Submission Policy
- This assignment is subject to the Late Submission penalty policy, namely 5% per day for three days.
- This page will close and will not allow further submissions after this Late Submission period has expired.
- In the event of an emergency preventing you from submitting within this time frame, special permission must be obtained from your instructor. Documentation substantiating emergency is required. In such a circumstance, if the extension is granted, the professor will reopen the submission function for you on an individual basis.
- Please do not email your submissions to your professor, either before or after the due date; all coursework should be submitted through the online course (Moodle).
Objectives
- To identify needed changes in structure that will be required to support changes in strategy.
- To illustrate how organization structure contributes to strategy.
- To analyze approaches to organizational changes.
Introduction
In this individual case analysis, students will be assigned an organizational case analysis where they will be analyzing different approaches to organizational design, structure required to support changes in strategy. The objectives of the case study are to give students an opportunity to illustrate how organization structure contributes to strategy, how different environments and factors affect the organization structure, design, and strategy.
Students will write an APA format case analysis report of 1,800-2,000 in MS Word (or another compatible word processor), double spaced, 12-point font, excluding title page or references. Instructions:
- This case analysis is to be done individually.