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What Kind of Multinational Structure Fits Your Company? This two-part diagnostic tool can help you calibrate how geographically clustered or dispersed the key capabilities of your businesses are, and gauge whether your organization can collaborate seamlessly across geographies. First determine, on a scale from 1 to 5, whether your business has highly clustered key capabilities (skills and resources mostly found in one region, often the home region); or moderately clustered (most resources and skills are found in one region, although different regions may possess advantages for different functions); or highly distributed (most skills and resources are spread across multiple regions). Then, on a scale from 1 to 5, determine how competent the people in your organization are at working closely across geographies. Not very competent, effectiveness is confined within specific geographies, functions, and product divisions; or moderately competent (people are somewhat effective at working across geographies); or highly competent, where most or all of the key ingredients of collaboration are in place. By determining your organization’s score on these two scales and plotting them on the accompanying graph, you can identify an appropriate global structure for your company. Companies that score lower on both geographic dispersion of capabilities and competence in working across countries require a front-end/back-end structure. Companies that score in the mid range on both scales require a matrix or a transactional structure. Companies that are both highly distributed in their capabilities and highly competent in working across countries require a T-shaped global structure.
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Dois verões atrás, Frits van Paasschen, CEO da Starwood Hotels, estava conversando com sua esposa, Laura, sobre a China. Com 70 propriedades em operação lá e mais 80 sendo construídas, a República Popular acabara de se tornar o segundo maior mercado da Starwood, depois dos Estados Unidos. Van Paasschen disse brincando: “É quase como se devêssemos mudar nossa sede para lá”. A resposta de Laura, em poucas palavras: Talvez você devesse.

A version of this article appeared in the October 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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