Some interesting thoughts here on the notion of creativity and current organisation structures. Conclusion:  Typical Bank organisation structures are not set up to effectively deliver on the needs of customers. 

Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Some Thoughts on Multidisciplinary Innovation

A mismatch thus exists between the way companies are organized for the effective operations of their current offerings, and the emerging needs of their customers and the marketplace in general.

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Perhaps the very notion of a hierarchic organization is an outmoded concept, a remnant of the industrial economy of the past hundred years.  Perhaps it’s not the way to organize work in the emerging knowledge economy.  Why do we need a business or university organized into departments, divisions and the like? 

Then we have Gary Hamel, quoted here by Richard Florida:

[W]e’re on the verge
of a post-managerial society. The idea that you mobilize human labor
through a hierarchy of overseers and bureaucrats and administrators are
going to look extraordinarily antiquated a decade or two from now.

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