When executives talk about crossing organizational boundaries, they usually mean not one or two boundaries but five or six, such as function, geographical region, process, product and customer.

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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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