Current Organizational Structures

This chapter shows the way many organizations are structured today. You wouldn't believe what we saw out there. Maybe you've seen the same setups, too. The first one (Figure 4-1) was our personal favorite and receives the first DORG (Disaster ORGanization) award. It's a designation that we give to organizations that have intrinsic problems just by the way they are created and the limitations they place on the people in the organization.

Figure 4-1. Infrastructure split in half.

The Infrastructure Split in Half.

In a few of the 40 companies we analyzed, we found the infrastructure was split between infrastructure ...

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