What’s on the Organisational Structures poster
A 6-row table: Structure · Good at · Weak at.
Structure against what it prioritises.
- Functional — Efficiency, expertise depth — Cross-function coordination
- Divisional — Focus on product or region — Duplication of functions
- Matrix — Both at once — Dual reporting, conflict
- Flat — Speed, autonomy — Scaling, career paths
- Network — Flexibility, low fixed cost — Control, quality, IP
- Team-based — Responsiveness — Consistency across teams
Conway's law: organisations design systems that mirror their own communication structure. The org chart shapes the product.
Questions about the Organisational Structures poster
- What’s on the Organisational Structures poster?
- A 6-row table: Structure · Good at · Weak at. Structure against what it prioritises. Functional — Efficiency, expertise depth — Cross-function coordination; Divisional — Focus on product or region — Duplication of functions; Matrix — Both at once — Dual reporting, conflict; Flat — Speed, autonomy — Scaling, career paths; Network — Flexibility, low fixed cost — Control, quality, IP; Team-based — Responsiveness — Consistency across teams. Conway's law: organisations design systems that mirror their own communication structure. The org chart shapes the product.
- Who is the Organisational Structures poster for?
- Organisational Structures belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning people & organisations can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Organisational Structures poster?
- Every structure optimises something and sacrifices something. There is no neutral option. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Organisational Structures belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Organisational Structures?
- Team Roles, Change Management and Managing Conflict sit alongside Organisational Structures in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Team RolesChange ManagementManaging Conflict
- Is the Organisational Structures poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Organisational Structures downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Organisational Structures poster print at?
- Organisational Structures is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Organisational Structures loses nothing.Printing guide
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