Chapter 10 “CERN’s Collaborative Management Model”{0}
Large Hadron Collider is experiencing impossible management situation. Krisztina Holly is a business leader and has to manage about 7,000 scientists from 85 countries around the world. A side from that she has to deal with the scientists’ languages, cultures, and expertise. Also she has no control over the salaries. This situation seems to be difficult to manage because of different sources from separate location.
However this is possible to manage, either big or small. Large Hadron Collider is handle by CERN, which is a European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. The work behind it is enormous: “a 27-km-long circular tunnel and four enormous detectors, buried 100 meters underground. One of the four experiments, called ATLAS, weighs as much as the Eiffel Tower, has about 20 million components, uses 3000 km of cables and 1000 km of piping, and requires some 5 million lines of computing code to run.” With all this technology and device running there is no CEO or president to oversee this. Money is control by spokesperson and resource coordinator that tracks the salaries.
This article reminds me of when Fresno State was switching to a new phone system and everything has to be replaced and adjust. All the staffs and faculties had no working phone for nearly a week, but happen. Behind the scene, the phone system is an enormous machines that connection to all the phones on campus. It was interesting to see the work in process of switching over to a new system.
Holly, Krisztina. (May 20, 2009). “CERN’s Collaborative Management Model”. Retrieved November 5, 2009, BusinessWeek.
Website: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2009/id20090520_115971.htm