Questions for Chat Class Meeting of March 3, 2002

Do you work in a functional grouping? A divisional grouping? A geographic grouping? Multifocused?

What can go wrong with the coordination and integration of effort across departments? BRAINSTORM!

What structural aspects of organization set the stage for coordination and integration disasters?

What can managers do, in general, to ameliorate structural "non-coordination" and "disintegration?"

What do you think of information systems as a response to structural non-coordination?

What do you think of direct contact/liaison as a response to structural non-coordination?

What do you think of task forces as a response to structural non-coordination?

What do you think of full time integrators as a response to structural non-coordination?