15.320 - MIT GradEl

Program

Curriculum

15.320
Strategic Organizational Design

Fall

Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-6
You must participate in Sloan’s Course Bidding to take this subject.
Lecture: TR2.30-4 (E51-151)

Focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative organizations, with special emphasis on innovative organizational forms that take advantage of new information technologies. Topics include when to use functional, divisional, or matrix organizations; how IT creates new organizational possibilities; examples of innovative organizational possibilities, such as democratic decision-making, crowd-based organizations, and other forms of collective intelligence. Team projects include inventing new possibilities for real organizations.

T. Malone
Textbooks (Fall 2024)