The course focuses on organizational designand collaboration engineering inside the boundaries of the firm: How canwe design/engineer an organization internally such that it favors innovation? The class will cover the basics oforganizational design (universal problems of organizing), division of labor andintegration of effort in organizations (task division, task allocation,decomposability of tasks, specialization and customization, agency problems), neworganizational forms (novel forms of task division/allocation (e.g.self-selection), reward distribution, (e.g. user needs), information flow(virtual collaboration), incentivizing collaboration in firms (job design forcollaboration, collocation, shared rewards, job rotation, physical layout), incentivizinginnovation in firms (job design for innovation, resistance to innovation,experimentation and tinker time, intrinsic motivation, self-selection), authorityand Control (hierarchies, flat/tall organizations, holocracies, span ofcontrol, minimal chain of command), specialization and Coordination (functionalstructures, divisional structures, product team structures, organization ofinnovation and R&D), informal organizational structure and innovationculture (innovation culture, psychological safety, networks in organizations),coordination roles for innovation and collaboration (promotor model, boundaryspanners, technological gatekeepers), modularity and organizational designs (conway’slaw, mirroring of technological architectures, design structure matrices), geographicalaspects of collaborative innovation (innovation laboratories, spatial layouts, technology and science parks,innovation clusters).
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