Challenging bureaucracy's stringent rules and tight structures is becoming a norm

Challenging bureaucracy's stringent rules and tight structures is becoming a norm in the era in which companies are racing to digitize their business models. Some of the traits of new organizational models appearing on the horizon are: (1) high level of intrapreneurship, (2) porous organizational boundaries that make the company an integral part of a wider business ecosystem, and (3) loosely coupled decentralized team structures working under few rules and cooperating through an internal market mechanism.

New HBR article written by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini from the Management Lab discusses a case study that provides evidence on this brave new sort of organization.