MANAGING GROWTH IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION : A case study of Alfa

• Main Authors: Falk, Linda, Eriksson, Anna
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen 2008
• Subjects: knowledge-based organization; growth; management; STS; Business studies; Företagsekonomi
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-88607

Alfa is one of the world’s leading IT advisory companies, with research and consulting abilities. Alfa Nordics is a successful part of Alfa focused on consulting in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Alfa Nordics will double their number of employees by the end of 2010 and we were asked to investigate how Alfa Nordics should enable this growth while keep being successful in having high profits, a strong brand, motivated employees and satisfied clients. By using theories about KBOs (Knowledge-Based Organizations) and conducting interviews with employees at Alfa Nordics we identified what makes Alfa Nordics successful today and what they should do to keep these success factors when growing. To keep their success within the organization Alfa should keep the execution teams small, recruit a resource manager and improve the knowledge exchange between the countries. To keep making successful engagements they should keep defining the problem in the best way for the client, ensuring sales and keep having the right employees. To keep their success in employing top consultants they should be visible in talented people environments, show that they are growing, develop a more thorough recruiting plan.