Products:
- High on collaboration
- Cross department deliverables
- Focus on specific areas like products, goals and such
- They typically build their own strategy
- Various sub-cultures like entrepreneurial, open source, hybrid and proprietary may exist within this
- Controlled offerings for customers
- Innovation & creativity is valued highly
- R&D is important here
- Flexibility in terms of what employees can do beyond the organization
- Flat or semi-structured hierarchies mostly
- Inventing a new category, offering, product, culture is possible here
Services:
- No set boundaries on technologies, products & frameworks at times
- Customer, partner & product ecosystems more or less drive the strategy & evolution
- Standardization of delivery & facilities for employees
- Silos & compartments within company by design and reason
- Hierarchical & matrix way of reporting and work with management
- Typically fixed set of roles & responsibilities for employees
- Process plays an important role here
Startups & mid-sized companies:
- No set hierarchy for interactions in the company – flat or semi-structured hierarchy
- Focus on cutting edge domains and technologies at times
- Evolves & builds strategy with the market & customers – Flexible in this aspect
- Multi-tasking roles & responsibilities with potentially high growth and learning or relatively quick failure
Technology work in Non Technology product companies:
- Focus on implementations of full projects & vendor, partner, product offerings mapped to business outcomes
- Co-ordination with stakeholders within and outside the organization plays an important role here
- Maintenance & support, evaluation of products & technologies, return on investment takes up a large amount of time
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