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Technology is a critical component of a business’s input to what they output. Today, technology is widely used for completing work tasks, mastering techniques, and machines that increase efficiency. Since technology is so influential now and continues to be even more pertinent, it helps to define a business’s structures and influences a business’s design (Pine II, 1999). In fact, technology is so important that without keeping up with modern technology, introducing innovative technology, or having strategies that match modern technology, businesses will suffer from inferior performance (Daft, 2021). To remain successful, the key features of the business’s structure and technology need to be aligned and cohesive.
Developing modern technologies simplifies and routinizes jobs. There are many recent technologies that include robotics, radio-frequency identification, wireless technology, artificial intelligence, and engineering analysis (Daft, 2021). Often, these items may be routinized by using machines to complete many different routine tasks. The machines can take over these tasks and allow multiple factories, customers, and suppliers the ability to connect with one another. Included in many of these different routinized tasks, job complexity increases with the usage of computer aided designs, computer aided manufacturing, robots, and additive manufacturing (Daft, 2021). These tasks require skilled workers with the appropriate training and education to do these jobs. Changing workers from completing these routine tasks to completing these more complex tasks also leads to the creation of jobs with greater varieties and complexities (Pine II, 1999).
Smart factories with all these innovative technologies previously listed create the opportunity to generate mass quantities of goods and services in a cost-effective way. Additionally, the customization of goods in mass quantity is now available to suppliers and customers. Increasing the flexibility and batch sizes of a production line allows the routine tasks to be routinized and increases complexity of jobs by the need for a high-level understanding of computer-aided craftsmanship (Daft, 2021). In addition to creating jobs with more complexity, there is also the creation of jobs with increased variety. Often, the management of these complex technologies requires the creation of a differentiated management team or an HRO. An HRO or a high reliability organization implements techniques to improve the reliability of their processes, technique, and improve safety (Daft, 2021). This opens a variety of new jobs in many companies.
References
B. Joseph Pine II, Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
Daft, R. L. (2021). Organization Theory & Design (13th ed.). USA: Cengage.