Strategic Lean Organizational Design: Towards Lean World-Small World Configurations through Discrete Dynamic Organizational Motifs

Organizational Update: World Stroke Organization.

O ur 2014 World Stroke Organization (WSO) annual report will shortly be published (http://www.world-stroke.org/) outlining the developments in 2014, a remarkable year! It is an exciting time for the global stroke scene, with recent publications demonstrating the benefits of endovas-cular thrombectomy in selected patients with acute ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusion. This major advance ...

COPs IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL WORLD

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are developing in importance for the organizational world. In the field of knowledge management there is increasing importance being placed on the social aspects of knowledge and how it can be managed, as opposed to how technology can be utilized. Technology, it is now being argued as a supportive mechanism rather than a driver for the management of knowledge. Peo...

Organizational Update: World Health Organization.

Organizational network perceptions versus reality: A small world after all?

Given the complexity of organizing and keeping track of even a small organizational network, boundedly rational people may have learned to use small world principles in perceiving friendship networks: arrange people in dense clusters, and connect the clusters with short paths. Analysis of 116 perceived friendship networks from four different organizations showed that these perceived networks ex...

The Impact of Lean Thinking on Organizational Learning

Lean management and organizational learning have been seen as two driving forces for today’s business’ success by contributing to competitive advantage in organizations. The aim of this paper is to explore and assess the implementation of lean from the perspective of organizational learning. By revisiting the lean concept and the relationship between lean and learning, we argue that lean has be...