Haberberg and Rieple: Strategic Management 
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Procter and Gamble is a major international diversified corporation, with its HQ in the US and divisions located all over the world. It restructured in 2006 and its CEO has been a strong advocate about the importance of P&G’s architecture and the way it should transfer knowledge and information across the company. From the information provided on the company’s website (http://www.pg.com/jobs/corporate_structure/four_pillars.jhtml) and in its annual reports (http://www.pg.com/investors/annualreports.jhtml0 and http://ccbn.mobular.net/ccbn/7/2481/2801/print/AR07_082307_revised.pdf), evaluate P&G’s current architecture.
http://www.gametheory.net/Web/PDilemma is a set of exercises giving you the opportunity to see the effects of colluding with or cheating opponents of different personalities in a game repeated over 25 rounds.
Search for a firm that has made a recent change to its organization structure. Suitable terms to type into your search engine might be ‘organization structure’, ‘organisation structure’, or ‘divisional structure’. Recent examples include: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BFP/is_1999_August_16/ai_55465564 or http://www.anz.com/australia/support/library/mr/mr20060420.pdf. Use the ABCDE dimensions to critique the change in structure. Will it help the organization move in its desired direction?
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