Netflix System Design: Structural Chart, Power, Compliance, and Recommendations

Task:

Describe Netflix’s system design to include the organization’s structural chart to illustrate the system's design. Identify the relationship between power and compliance in the organization’s structural chart. Assess how these approaches to power and compliance have influenced the development of this system. Provide recommendations for a more effective system.

Many manufacturing organizations across the globe are struggling to remain competitive in the global market. Lean manufacturing, as part of a continuous This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. SES-0217866. The authors gratefully acknowledge the organizational members of the case study site for their participation.improvement effort, is one strategy used by some manufacturers to gain an economic advantage (Jeyaraman and Teo, 2010; Taj, 2008). The electronics manufacturing industry has increasingly used lean manufacturing as a tool to increase profits and cut expenses during periods of economic slowdown. In the northwestern USA, in particular, the electronics manufacturing industry is a vital part of the economy, creating increased interest in management approaches that will allow this industry to remain financially viable.