Fabricate-It, Inc., is a medium-size manufacturing company that uses standard assembly lines to produce its products.

Its employees tend to be poorly educated and perform monotonous work. Think-It, Inc., is a software design firm that writes customized programs to solve its customers’

problems. Its employees tend to be highly educated and perform highly creative work. Both are reconsidering their current organizational designs.

1. What type of organizational design would you imagine would best suit the needs of Fabricate-It?

Explain your decision.

2. What type of organizational design would you imagine would best suit the needs of Think-It?

Explain your decision.

3. How might each of these organizations benefit by entering into strategic alliances with other organizations?