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They set up skunk works (small, autonomous units with a remit to innovate) and mock the boring corporate types who write their pay-cheques.
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Hon Hai executives, and outside analysts, say the company has stayed nimble so far largely by splitting its operations among about a dozen smaller, semi-autonomous units.
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Under the David Packard approach, new product lines split off into autonomous units, and scores of disparate operations populated the four main businesses--ink-jet printers, laser printers, servers and PCs.
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Teams are tight, autonomous units.
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The organizational unit through which these results are to be achieved at Haier is the ZZJYT: small, autonomous units of ten to twenty people, each with direct responsibility for a geographical area, a product, or a manufacturing process and seen as an entrepreneurial platform in an otherwise large, complex organization.
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The current version of the car, which was launched in 2000, was promoted with over 20 different advertising campaigns created by semi-autonomous marketing units.
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Hashimoto has also found with Noda important areas of agreement, particularly reforming the system of regional administration to create larger, more autonomous regional units that would take over authority from the central government.
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Quest business units are fairly autonomous since the distinct products are sold as point solutions rather than an integrated portfolio.
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At this stage, the robots are pre-programmed, but a future goal is to make them autonomous and to increase the number of collaborative units working as one.
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