To cope with drastic changes and ambiguity, many companies are now trying toflatten their organizational structures, because aflat organization can sense its customers'needs and respond quickly to changes in the markets. To flatten its organizational structure, a company has to loosen its couplings, giving its subsystems autonomy, and let them make their own decisions. However, autonomy without a clear central direction will only result in chaos. Commensurability provides central direction indispensable to a loosely coupled organization. Simulating/gaming can facilitate organizational change by improving the commensurability of interpretative frameworks.
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