Challenges of Building an Ambidextrous Organization

Abstract

The broad predicament confronting managers and organizations is that in the short run they must constantly imbibe the world of evolutionary changes to increase the fit of strategy,structure and culture, while in the long run, managers may be required to destroy or disrupt the very fir that has made their organizations successful. The immediate translation of these phenomena for managers would mean continously shifting between periods characterized by relative stability and incremental innovation, and part of their time grappling with revolutionary changes, These contrasting managerial demands are not easy to handle as it requires that managers periodically destrow what has been created in order to recreate or build a new organization through renewal. This explains why managers need to be ambidextrous and should pursue both exploitation an exploration at the same time.