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General model of company activities

The model shows that the activities of any type of company, including service companies, can be divided into four groups (production, service, support, planning) and that such organization is applicable to the company as a whole, to any part of it (division, department) and even to single employees. Since the model, as no other, covers nearly all sections of the company, it complements other ones (Tavistock, Katz & Kahn, Kast & Rosenzweig). The comparison with Porter’s Chain of Values and the advantages shown in the text, allow the conclusion that this model is perfectly adequate to the proposed changes in the company and to the improvement of its competitiveness.

organizational model; company activities; strategy; industrial and service company


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