In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new General Manager Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to proceed with an unusual organizational structure, or return to the old organization of the matrix. Describes all the organizational structures used by Procter & Gamble since 1920, including geographic, product and matrix architecture. Market development organizations, global business units, and global business services unit, each of which is largely interdependent with others, and none of which has a distinct advantage of making decisions, are unusual organizational structure. Consideration of the various organizational structures, trade-offs associated with each organizational architecture, as well as related implementation issues.Proctor and Gamble Organization 2005(A) Case Solution
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by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Alessandro L. Spadini Source: HBS Premier Case Collection 23 pages. Publication Date: January 23, 2007. Prod. #: 707519-PDF-ENG
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