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Organisational ambidexterity

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, organisational ambidexterity means: The ability to improve and use existing activities while also exploring new possibilities.

In Turkish: örgütsel çift yönlülük

How it is used

Use for the tension between exploiting established operations and exploring future opportunities, not personal multitasking.

Example sentences

  1. Organisational ambidexterity allowed the firm to improve its core service while testing a different business model.

    Improvement of the existing business and exploration proceed together.

  2. Separate experimental teams were one way the group supported organisational ambidexterity.

    Different structures can help accommodate conflicting demands for efficiency and discovery.

Common collocations

  • develop organisational ambidexterity
  • support organisational ambidexterity
  • strategyA long-term plan that sets out where an organisation wants to go and the main choices it will make to get there, such as which markets to enter and what to stop doing.
  • change managementThe planned way an organisation prepares, supports and guides people through a major change, such as a new system or a merger, so that the change is accepted and lasts.

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