What’s the right structure for a large organisation?
<p>What’s the right structure for a large organisation? There have been a few <a href="https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/functional-versus-unit-organizations-6b82bfbaa57#.3kwc0z08b" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">interesting blog posts</a> about this in recent days, looking specifically at Apple and whether it is equipped to support its own scale.</p>
<p>It’s a topic that I started to tackle a few years ago with Enfield Borough Council when the chief exec asked me what a future-ready council should look like. I tackled it again when a £250m turnover logistics business asked me to help them to be future-ready. Neither of these businesses is Apple-scale. But I think the answer holds as you scale up.</p>
<p>My answer in both cases was similar. It starts with perspective. Every org chart is created from the leader’s perspective, and so has the leader at the top or in the middle. But we know that the most important person in any organisation is not its leader. It’s the customer.</p>
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