What Are The Challenges That Shikhar Ghosh Faced When He Joined Appex?

1. What were the challenges that Shikhar Ghosh faced when he joined Appex? How was the organization designed/structured? Name an advantage and a disadvantage of the organization’s structure at this point. (20 points)

• Appex, was a small entrepreneurial, technology-driven and loosely structured company. Employees came in when they felt like it; people were getting to work at 10 am instead of being there at 8 am. They had twenty-five employees with $2 million in revenue. The venture capitalist who had invested in the firms were hoping that Ghosh would be able to turn it around. The company was spending money rapidly without monitoring their expenses. Ghosh noticed that employees would arrive to work and react to whatever the crisis was that day they were putting out fires instead of developing products. Complaints from customers increased, as Appex was unable to handle the demand and volume of the customer’s orders. Appex started falling behind schedules and missing installation dates.

2. In this question, you are being asked to evaluate the importance and the impact of each of the structural changes that Ghosh implemented. Consider the MORGAN chapters on Machines, Organisms, and Brains in your responses to evaluate the importance, reasoning, and results of each change. (85 points total)

a. Considering the first change, what was the intended purpose of this change? What ideas from our class would support the intended importance of this change

Importance and organization. Employee’s did not respond enthusiastically.

c. Considering the third, fourth, and fifth changes, what was the intended purpose of these changes? What ideas from our class would support the intended importance of this change in design? (Hint: focus on concepts from all three metaphors) What happened? What problems did this new structure address? What problems, in turn, did it create? Be specific. (45