Brief overview of Mintzberg and McKinsey 7s models

1. Mintzberg - Background
• Professor Henry Mintzberg - US-based
academic
• Specialist in business
strategy, management, and forms of
organisation
• Mintzberg model – developed in 1980s
• Response to the concern that organisational
design was too random
• Rather, design should reflect the business
context

2. Mintzberg Model
• Comprises five basic parts:
– Strategic apex
– Operating core
– Middle line
– Technostructure
– Support staff
• And five configurations:
– Simple structure
– Professional bureaucracy
– Machine bureaucracy
– Divisionalised form
– Adhocracy

3. McKinsey 7s Model – Background
• Developed by Tom Peters, Julien Philips, Bob
Waterman whilst at McKinsey (Global
consulting firm)
• Response to a number of concerns, including:
– the inability of strategy to be implemented
effectively
– the overemphasis on structural solutions for
organisational problems

4. McKinsey 7s Model
Structure
Strategy Systems
Shared
Values
Skills Style
Staff