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    N12 Technologies effectively managed the transition from 4 to 27 employees by differentiating itself from traditional organizations through creating small, highly specialized teams able to rapidly develop innovative technology. The document discusses that Flavin introduced formal structure at the right time as N12 grew, allowing specialization of functions. It recommends that going forward, Flavin and Berkson need to focus on challenges of coordination, communication, and knowledge management between departments as the startup matures, balancing innovation with formalizing processes to replicate successes consistently.

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    N12 Technologies effectively managed the transition from 4 to 27 employees by differentiating itself from traditional organizations through creating small, highly specialized teams able to rapidly develop innovative technology. The document discusses that Flavin introduced formal structure at the right time as N12 grew, allowing specialization of functions. It recommends that going forward, Flavin and Berkson need to focus on challenges of coordination, communication, and knowledge management between departments as the startup matures, balancing innovation with formalizing processes to replicate successes consistently.

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    N12 Technologies effectively managed the transition from 4 to 27 employees by differentiating itself from traditional organizations through creating small, highly specialized teams able to rapidly develop innovative technology. The document discusses that Flavin introduced formal structure at the right time as N12 grew, allowing specialization of functions. It recommends that going forward, Flavin and Berkson need to focus on challenges of coordination, communication, and knowledge management between departments as the startup matures, balancing innovation with formalizing processes to replicate successes consistently.

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    N12 Technologies effectively managed the transition from 4 to 27 employees by differentiating itself from traditional organizations through creating small, highly specialized teams able to rapidly develop innovative technology. The document discusses that Flavin introduced formal structure at the right time as N12 grew, allowing specialization of functions. It recommends that going forward, Flavin and Berkson need to focus on challenges of coordination, communication, and knowledge management between departments as the startup matures, balancing innovation with formalizing processes to replicate successes consistently.

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    Case 3 : N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business

    Ximena López Cifuentes

    1. How effectively did the company manage the transition from four to 27 employees?

    I think N12 has transitioned very effectively from 4 to 27 employees. N12 was creating
    innovative technology that was evolving very quickly, the variety of markets and segments
    they wanted to cover was wide and ambitious. They differentiated from traditional
    organizations creating small and highly specialized teams able to generate innovative
    technological developments in a very short time.
    N12 learned to grow across all dimensions of the organization, not only technical and
    operational, but also, the organization design tended to scalability of the value creation
    process.

    2. Do you think that Flavin went too fast or too slow in introducing formal structure at
    N12?

    I think the formal structure was introduced at the right time. As can be seen in the
    timeline (Figure 1) in an early stage of the organization it was possible to create an
    adequate and timely separation of functions and specialization of work. The main
    characteristic of the markets in which the company wants to position itself is the high
    degree of specialization and technical requirements, which N12 was able to identify and
    solve very well by differentiating its value creation process and specializing it through the
    engineering and the production, operation and quality processes. Coordination and
    integration between teams was also successfully leaded by COO since his arrival to the
    company.

    3. What do Flavin and Berkson need to do next from an organizational perspective?

    As Williams, Degtiarov and Deresh mentioned on several occasions, among most


    important challenges brought by horizontal differentiation are coordination between
    different departments and teams, communications and knowledge management.

    At maturation stage, start-ups begin to face the challenge of staying innovative and
    moving super-fast, and at the same time, initiating the formalization and standardization
    of processes and procedures that allow them to replicate their victories in a consistent
    way.

    I’d recommend next steps seen on figure 2.


    Figure 1 – N12 structure timeline
    Figure 2- N12 next steps

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