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  • krp76 replied to the topic Discussion Topic: State of your Organization in the forum Introduction to Project Management 8 years, 2 months ago

    Currently I work at Ethicon Biosurgery in Somerville, NJ. The organizational project management base is a funcational organizational structure. My work focuses on quality and regulatory performance of surgical devices mainly suture, surgical mesh, and hemostatic agents. Our division also deals with smaller side projects for devices in the R&D phase and for these smaller projects we utilize the project-based organizational approach. From my experience I believe that the project-based organizational approach is more efficient and communications are easier. The main negative critique I have of the functional based approach is that it leads to time delays since communication is not as swift. However, I believe that a functional approach is a necessity for large organizations that are globally connected since it provides better fluidity/continuity.