Challenges of growth in a network company

Mark Engineering is a large network company facing challenges between growth and its small company feel. Small networks are rewarding for both individuals and companies. With growth, networks become cumbersome and costly to operate. Like effective teams, networks must remain small to be efficient. Growth tends to drive management to more traditional hierarchical structures, but such a move would undermine the value of a network organization. Strategy and market forces influence organizational structure. Once outside environmental factors are considered, management make strategic decisions regarding resource allocation and the operational configuration that meets the market opportunity. In a network organization management can implement control systems in conjunction with incremental structural adjustments to maintain balance and harness the benefits of a network organization. In this paper, strategic options are evaluated to improve the bottom line without transformational restructuring to a traditional hierarchical structure.