• Compare the different types of organization, as well as discuss their strengths and weaknesses when applied to empirical cases
• Analyze an organization (processes, formal and informal networks, communication and information flows etc.) in order to be able to evaluate organisational alternatives
• Identify important elements and issues to look for and how to organise global teams to solve any type of challenge.

The course places focus on knowledge creation - increasingly in acts of co-creation, storage and utilisation processes in organisations, specialisation in organisational structures and how structures can be coordinated by formal and informal coordination mechanisms. The course further studies the organisation of networks that allow access from members distributed over large geographic distances, how they emerge and how they can be developed and sustained. A centrl issue is how such an organisation may facilitate learning and distribution of knowledge. Finally, the course includes concrete examples of how fundamental innovation challenges can be solved by mobilising carefully selected teams that compete and collaborate to solve the challenge.