Managing Complexity in Global Organizations

This book delivers new IMD insights on an emerging challenge - howto deal with overwhelming complexity. Global organizations face acomplex decision-making environment. On one side, diversity ofcultures, customers, competitors and regulations createscomplexity; on the other, competitive pressures cause expandingcountries to extract more synergies across products and regions. Insuch a climate, a new way of thinking, acting and organizing isneeded beyond the familiar 'control' mindset. Drawing together insights from across the expert faculty, Managing Complexity in the Global Organization presentsIMD's framework on how to understand complexity and its fourkey drivers (diversity; interdependence; ambiguity and flux), alongwith solutions on specific issues in a variety of functions, industries and markets. The focus is on providing practicalsolutions based on real-life examples.