ABSTRACT
The way we organise is changing, and there are many ways of looking at this evolution. This is being enabled by the changes identified in Chapter 2. Like the technology curves, the pace and extent of change is relatively new as organisational structures have stayed pretty flat for some time. For example, Ricardo Semler describes a company in the North of England in his book Maverick.1 The manufacturing lines are laid out by product lines with a mezzanine floor on which overlook the marketing, finance/ admin and leadership teams. In this way the central teams can quickly support and communicate with the product line teams. This may sound fairly modern, but in fact Semler describes a company from the mid-1600s.
