How do you get a thousand engineers to agree on the design a complex product in a timely way? How do you design such a product to be modular, so that portions of it can be more easily changed or ...

A design structure matrix (DSM) is a visual analysis tool used for system modelling. Simple and concise, it uses an NxN square matrix to represent the relationships between N system elements. Data ...

The International Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Conference has been the forum to exchange developments, trends, and ideas to propel complexity management in all kinds ...

The integration mechanism in a matrix organizational design has four components. Standardization makes organizational units operate the same way. Regulations formalize how to take action. Common goals ...

This paper develops a parsimonious process-level theory that connects organizational structure to exploration and exploitation. Toward this end, it develops a mathematical model of organizational ...

Though a company's top management must consider many issues when designing an organization's structure, they all relate to only a few design elements. Designers start with the most basic issue of a ...