Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness

But Mintzberg is something we need to read to talk about it today

Organizational structuring, of course, focuses on the division of labor of an organizational mission into a number of distinct tasks, and then the coordination of all of these tasks to accomplish that mission in a unified way. The literature suggests that this coordination can be effected in at least five basic ways ...

Mintzberg, H. (1980). Structure in 5's: A Synthesis of the Research on Organization Design. Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Mar., 1980), 322-341. Focus on pages 322 to the first half of 327

You don't have to read these unless you wish to ...

... but we might touch upon them in conversation

In an ideal world, rational decision making would require a complete search of available alternatives, reliable information about their consequences, and consistent preferences to evaluate these outcomes. In the real world, such demands on information gathering and processing are unrealistic. Instead of a comprehensive, objective rationality, Herbert Simon suggested that decision making in organizations is constrained by the principle of bounded rationality ...

Choo, C. W. (2006). The knowing organization: How organizations use information to construct meaning, create knowledge, and make decisions. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1, "The Knowing Organization: A Holistic View of How Organizations Use Information." 1-28

Things we may talk about

• we'll review Mintzberg's five basic parts of an organization
• how can we apply this to our personal experiences within organizations?
• can we place ourselves in this model?

Something else

Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté - Jarabi

Toumani Diabaté (born in Gallé, Mali, on 10 August 1965; died 19 July 2024) was a Malian kora player remembered for performing the traditional music of Mali and for being involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles.
Diabaté was considered by many to be the world's finest kora player. He was a versatile performer, being equally at home with the traditional music of Mali as well as with cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles. He came from a long family tradition of kora players including his father, Sidiki Diabaté, who recorded the first ever kora album in 1970. (Last.fm)