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Explain how the changing global environment presents challenges for organization design. Include your thoughts on how differentiation and integration play a role.

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* Organizational design: purpose, comparison of past and present
* How organizations can change their organizational design to attain differentiation
* The need for lateral integration. The solution is 246 words and two non-APA references are provided.

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An organizational design is created to provide the right structure that suits the requirements of the strategy for implementation. As the global environment changes, certain organizational changes must take place to modify the structures that no longer fit the strategies of the recent strategies being implemented. When the business environment was relatively stable in the past, managers took small, incremental and continual changes and solved problems as they occur. This perspective doesn't apply anymore in the ...

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