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Re:Why Big Companies Can't Innovate by edejong on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:17PM (#11710348)
It's quite unlikely you've heard of Eckart Wintzen [1]. He was leading one of the fastest growing software engineering companies in the 70's and 80's called BSO using a 'cell management', where sub-companies have a set maximum size of 50 and need to split afterwards. I worked for a company called Topicus [2] in the Netherlands which followed a similar philosophy for a while.

[1] http://www.extent.nl/about-us/people/eckart/ [2] http://www.topicus.nl

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Re:Why Big Companies Can't Innovate by nickpsecurity on Monday May 16, 2016 @08:54PM (#11710681)
Similar models exist in big business under the name of divisional organizations and matrix-style management. The latter is nowhere near as cool as it could be with some minor changes involving VR and AI's. Yet, it worked in real-world businesses well enough.
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