Ambidexterity reading

MBA 625 strategy implementation

and corporate social responsibility
 ambidexterity
• Different structures support different strategic positions
• What happens when customers value two strategic
qualities equally? E.g. exploration and exploitation,
innovation and efficiency, responsiveness and functional
depth?
– Internal corporate venturing
– cross functional team to do new stuff
– Alternate backwards and forwards between alternative
structures
• Ambidexterity: June structure organization United in the
top management team