New Governance vs. Organizational Terrorism

by Stephen J. Andriole

There's a challenge brewing in the trenches. It's tense, yet full of opportunity. It is bottom-up and top-down. It's personal -- and organizational. It's about power and control. It's therefore complicated and potentially very, very nasty. But, ultimately, it's about survival: we will change, or we will die. The fight is about wholly new governance models versus organizational "terrorism." In other words, enterprises need to change or subject themselves to all sorts of maneuvering on the part of business units and technology groups to acquire more autonomy and decision-making authority. The enterprise can get out in front of this inevitable trend or fight what is certainly a losing battle.