Mintzberg - Background

• Professor Henry Mintzberg - US-based academic• Specialist in business strategy, management,

and forms of organisation• Mintzberg model – developed in 1980s• Response to the concern that organisational

design was too random• Rather, design should reflect the business

context

Mintzberg Model

• Comprises five basic parts:– Strategic apex– Operating core– Middle line– Technostructure– Support staff

• And five configurations:– Simple structure– Professional bureaucracy– Machine bureaucracy– Divisionalised form– Adhocracy

McKinsey 7s Model – Background

• Developed by Tom Peters, Julien Philips, Bob Waterman whilst at McKinsey (Global consulting firm)

• Response to a number of concerns, including:– the inability of strategy to be implemented

effectively– the overemphasis on structural solutions for

organisational problems

McKinsey 7s Model

Shared Values

Structure

Systems

Style

Staff

Skills

Strategy