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Valve’s gaming success hinges on innovative and completely original experiences

ID: 1225651 • Letter: V

Question

Valve’s gaming success hinges on innovative and completely original experiences like Portal and Half-Life Download and review Valve Software’s company handbook online found at the following URL www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf . Specifically, focus on Valve’s corporate structure. Valve has hundreds of employees but no managers or bosses at all. a) Does it seem that Valve’s corporate structure uniquely promotes this type of gaming innovation? Why or why not? b) How would you characterize Valve’s organizational structure? Is it completely unique, or could it be characterized as a multidivisional, matrix, or functional structure? Explain your answer.

Explanation / Answer

A) Yes valve corporate structure is highly innovative and literally allows employees to think about products and services that customers wants, Or they themselves as customers would long for, They can start project by themselves, Self-approve it and implement it. Ship the product and earn revenue. This is entrepreneurship and promoting this can add huge amounts of value to company

B) Valves employee structure is so different that it cannot be characterised under these structures, but the closest it resembles to functional structure as every employee is a functional unit with himself as core. This sort of innovation is unheard of.