Ep. 54 Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation
Bill Fischer is a Professor of Innovation Management at IMD and Simone Cicero is the cofounder of Boundaryless and co-creator of the Platform Design Toolkit. We talk about what they have learned from years of studying and collaborating with the Chinese company Haier Group, whose Rendanheyi organisational model has been praised internationally as one of the most revolutionary management ideas of the 21st century. How have they created an ecosystem that supports thousands of self-managed microenterprises?