Unit 2: Organization Functional Structure and Michael Porter – Competitive Advantage Margin.

Unit 2 Learning objectives – After completing unit 2 you will understand how organizations are structured  You will understand revenue cycles and the speed with which transactions occur and how this is related to structure.  You will be able to begin decomposing organizations in to their functional components.  You will also learn about Michael Porter’s model of organizations which gives us a useful way to think about organization structure by identifying primary and secondary activities and a method to measure them.