ICOS Presents:

"Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Designs: On Building Dynamic Capabilities"

Professor Michael Tushman
Business Administration, Harvard Business School

University of Michigan

March 26, 2004

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Introduction

Title Slide

Research Question

Building Dynamic Capabilities is Difficult?

Worldwide Watch Production

Blackboard (Graph)

Percentage of Tires Shipped by Construction Type: 1961-1989

Disk Drive Industry Evolution

Henderson and Clark, ASQ, 1990

Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation Streams

Blackboard (Org Chart - Right)

Blackboard (Graph)

Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation Streams

Percentage of Tires Shipped by Construction Type: 1961-1989

Blackboard (Graph)

Blackboard (Graph 2)

The Challenge

The Response

Plural, Dual, or Ambidextrous Designs: Explore and Exploit

The Response

Plural, Dual, or Ambidextrous Designs: Explore and Exploit

Blackboard (Right - all)

Plural, Dual, or Ambidextrous Designs: Explore and Exploit

Products/Services As Systems: Subsystems and Linking Mechanisms

Executive Team: Multiple Strategies, Single vision, Few Core Values

Blackboard (right - middle) *erased

Methods

Blackboard (right - middle)

Methods

Table 1: Sample Description

Sample (cont.)

Results: Innovation Streams

Innovation performance by number of non-incremental innovations

Results: Does Ambidexterity Exist?

Characteristics of Ambidexterity

Figure 1: Innovation Space

Design Choices and Innovation Outcomes

Designs Shift Over Time

Table 6: Organization Designs and Innovation Outcomes

Organization Designs Over Time

Table 7: Existing Product Performance by Organization Form

Ambidextrous Organizations

Patterns in Organizational Evolution

Next Steps

Questions

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