This Organization is DisOrganization by Polly Labarre, Fast Company, June, 1996. Learn about how the Danish company, Oticon Holding A/S, has prospered through a radical change in its organization structure: It abolished the formal organization and made projects the defining unit of work. In fact, the founder takes things even further by breaking apart long-standing project teams to prevent entrenched patterns from developing. Off to the virtual office by Ingrid Hein, eye NET, June 12, 1997. Profile of a small company where the employees are considering a shift from a combination of office and home-based work to a virtual office where all work is completed at home. Under the virtual office, all communications would be conducted by phone or e-mail. Question: What are the potential advantages and disadvantages for similar companies -- and their employees -- of operating exclusively under a virtual office arrangement? Bharat Petroleum Corporation by Gary Abramson, CIO, August 15, 1999. Although there are other companies profiled in this article, focus on the first section, "Bharat Petroleum Corporation," to learn about the company's innovations in organizing itself. It pursued the objective of bringing out more of their employees' potential through a major company reorganization where "business unit teams have become independent from the traditional, centralized business functions such as marketing, finance and human resources." Companies describing their organizational structures: Bayer Microsoft

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