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Unlike many reimagining of the management paradigm, the MWT Model is not anti-hierarchy.

In fact, there is an unavoidable hierarchy of responsibility that serves organisations well – and it is only distorted through managers (and other groups) trying to escape it.

The MWT Model doesn’t suggest that hierarchies don’t exist – rather it suggests that Collaboration Architectures must be clear and transparent.

The New MWT Hierarchy provides a suggestion that the governance hierarchy of an organisation should mirror the business capability map at the top level, followed by clear distinctions that:

  • Separate management from measurement
  • Create hierarchies of leaders
  • Create effective peer relationships across short and long term objectives
  • Manage resources as bundles of capability
  • Leave space for specialised solution architectures (both technology and non-technolgy solutions)

This approach balances stability versus change, and business capability ownership with a subordinated functional ownership.  The MWT Future Firm extends this idea with specific digital business capabilities to include in the governance hierarchy.

 

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