Industry 4.0 Quantum Strategic Organizational Design Configurations. The Case of 3 Qubits: Two Report to One.

Javier Villalba-Diez,Juan Carlos Losada,Rosa María Benito,Daniel Schmidt

doi:10.3390/e23040426

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Abstract

The goal of this work is to explore how the relationship between two subordinates reporting to a leader influences the alignment of the latter with the company’s strategic objectives in an Industry 4.0 environment. We do this through the implementation of quantum circuits that represent decision networks. In fact, through the quantum simulation of strategic organizational design configurations (QSOD) through five hundred quantum circuit simulations. We conclude that the alignment probability of the leader is never higher than the average alignment value of his subordinates, i.e., the leader never has a better alignment than his subordinates. In other words, the leader cannot present asymptotic stability better than that of his subordinates. The most relevant conclusion of this work is the clear recommendation to the leaders of Industry 4.0 not to add hierarchical levels to their organization if they have not achieved high levels of stability in the lower levels.

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Strategic planning in an organization, according to Grant [1], involves the beginning of the strategic process: “A dialogue through which knowledge is shared and consensus and commitment toward action and results are achieved.” This dialogue, previously described as Nemawashi [2] or “catch-ball” [3] by scholars, provides a balance of forces, sometimes delicate, between the interests of the different organizational agents [4]
Operating under a strategic organizational design paradigm [5,6], the interplay of these interdependent organizational elements forms complex hierarchical networks [7] and supports decision making in order to achieve, ideally, a coordination of efforts in pursuit of the organization’s strategic objectives called organizational alignment. Such alignment efforts can occur in different organizational environments, in this paper the authors focus on complex networked cyber-physical systems in an Industry 4.0 context
Industry 4.0 ought to enable a bigger autonomy of the production, as the technology gets more interconnected and machines are able to exert influence on each other creating a cyber-physical system

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Strategic planning in an organization, according to Grant [1], involves the beginning of the strategic process: “A dialogue through which knowledge is shared and consensus and commitment toward action and results are achieved.” This dialogue, previously described as Nemawashi [2] or “catch-ball” [3] by scholars, provides a balance of forces, sometimes delicate, between the interests of the different organizational agents [4]. The simulation of QSOD as decision networks and their equivalent quantum circuits opens, without a doubt, a wide field of possibilities for the study of the design of complex strategic networked organizations.

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