Departments: From Control to Support
Learn about the importance of dealing with organizational structure and departmental roles in large projects.
Sometimes it’s the headwind,
which carries you higher and further.
– German proverb
Organizational structure as a source of the problem
Large companies often run large projects. The organizational structure of the companies habitually forces the projects to be run in a specific way, which gives rise to various problems. A common philosophy regarding this situation is:
If you cannot change the organization, change organizations.
However, there are other ways to deal with these issues.
Most problems are mainly based on the structure of the company. Typically, a large company is more departmentally than project-structured. The departmental structure was originally invented to support the organizational hierarchy and to control the projects, not to provide the necessary support for projects. Consequently, these organizational departments seldom regard the projects as their ...