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Why businesses get stuck in their ways

By Stefan Stern

Published: July 12 2007 03:00 | Last updated: July 12 2007 03:00

Considering so many of us are supposed to be working in something called the "knowledge economy", it is absurd how stupidly designed so many businesses and organisations actually are.

Matrix structures are piled on ad hoc reorganisations, divisions are divided, parcelled up and then redivided all over again. No wonder accountabilities get blurred, employees are confused and performance suffers.

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