So in order to learn more about administrative design and its impact on output (artistic in this case), I’ve had to jump into literature from the business world. The closest I can come to study examples is in the health care field, which share our mostly not-for-profit status. <\/p>\n
What I have learned is that the success of administrative designs in business and health care is determined by how well a product or service sells and\/or how well a particular constituent group is served. It appears that in the best of cases, administrative designs are created to serve an identified market. In other words, the messy of process of creating a product or service while imagining and researching its potential market should include how a business, or in this case a not-for-profit should organize itself to best move the product or service to its market. <\/p>\n
What came immediately to mind was how poorly arts enterprises manage their markets. <\/p>\n
My experience has been that products are imagined, invented and “manufactured” with little regard to a market. In fact, at times I have experienced even a disregard or low regard for the marketplace. Nonetheless, it’s rare for arts organizations to create programs and services in an interactive, flexible manner, in a process that is thoughtful and fully knowledgeable of its potential market.<\/p>\n
So if the most effective administrative design (or even organizational design) emerges from the essential need of most effectively moving products and services to market, we in the arts community have a problem. <\/p>\n
I’ll be continuing my education (and blogging) on this topic for some time — it’s intensely interesting to question and probe the long-held customs and ways of doing “business” in the arts sector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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