A class-based organization promotes enterprise-wide open-model responsive information systems. The class-based organization is highly adaptable to changes in the competitive environment; it is therefore likely to ensure the firm's continued survival. The class-based organization is also able to rapidly marshal its key human resources and redirect them to confront competitive assaults on the firm.
The Class-Based management approach structurally facilitates enterprise-wide reusabilty, reduces product cycle time by leveraging pre-fabricated business objects, reduces costs by eliminating redundant software and hardware, improves inter-unit communication by defining contracts between collaborating class-teams, broadcasts corporate business strategy by publishing the Strategic Object model, flattens the organizational structure by doing more with fewer personnel, clearly identifies organizational responsibilities and accountabilities by defining class-teams that represent the firm's object model, and horizontally integrates fragmented business processes.
A desirable attribute of hardware and software componentry is plug-and-play. Similarly, in a class-based organization, class-teams can be plugged into and out of the organizational circuitry, as business conditions demand. New business processes can be introduced with rapid concept-to-action results, since the organization has already pre-positioned supporting core and utility class components that support a large percentage of the needs of the new business process.
CBE recognizes that organizations that are too rigid will break. Interfaces that are closed will eventually asphyxiate the business functions that they aim to support. CBE attempts to ultimately strengthen the organizational environment by giving it greater flexibility, openness, and responsiveness to management objectives. It is through these qualities that the firm can achieve its competitive potential.
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