In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

The way in which an organization is structured has a great impact on the style of management needed to optimize the organization. A misfit between management styles and the organizational structure ...

Most people easily recognize the vertical management structure. The setup is the most traditional, characteristically employing a power hierarchy. A head honcho leads all, directing less powerful ...

Some people say flat structures cause chaos in organizations. And while that can certainly be true, my experience has been different. After years of working for horizontal and vertical hierarchies, I ...

But a new survey from San Francisco-based workplace communications outfit Firstup shows that eliminating too many management jobs can have some unexpected effects on the way your teams work, sometimes ...

When successful startups and their staffs expand, many founders intentionally retain the bare-bones hierarchies that made their business leaner, faster, and less expense to operate as they grew.

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...

Dell is flattening its organizational structure and cutting down management layers. Vice presidents will now have at least 15 direct reports, while other senior staff will have 20 reports. A flatter ...

Dentsu Group has announced a new management structure made up of a more "globally diverse" team to bring its international and Japanese business units closer together. With effect from January 1st, ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...