Organisational Behaviour
COURSE WORKS:
ASSIGNMENT (30%)
Task: Analyze the case on “The Speed Team at IBM” and answer the 3 questions given.
Requirements:
Ensure the assignment report has the cover page, content, footnotes, references (Harvard System), appendices and so on.
Use Microsoft Word format with one-half line spacing and font size 12.
Ensure the assignment report does not exceed 5 pages of A4 papers.
Use your own words to answer the 3 questions.
Make sure that you attach the “Declaration Statement” to the assignment report.
Take note that the submission date is 3/5/13.
Any plagiarism will be penalized.
THE SPEED TEAM AT IBM
Steve Ward, the vice president of business transformation and chief information officer at IBM, was having dinner with a few members of his approximately 200-member leadership council. During dinner he decided that saving time, through making decisions faster, writing software faster, and completing projects faster, needed higher priority at IBM. If smaller telecommunications companies could continue to work faster than IBM, they would keep nibbling away at Big Blue’s market share.
The morning after the leadership council dinner, the Speed Team was born. Ward contacted 21 IBMers and give them an assignment. Get the 100,000 – person information technology group moving faster than ever, with a focus on the rapid development Web-oriented applications. At IBM, the IT group has high status and reports to the senior vice president of strategy.
The Speed Team’s Co-leaders – Jane Harper, director of technology operations, and Ray Blair, director of e-procurement – had strong reputations for pushing projects forward at a blazing pace. The two leaders decided that the team should have a life span of approximately six months. “I think that we will have failed if the Speed Team is still together three years from now,” explains Harper. “Our plan, when we started this, was to come together, look at what works, look at why projects get…