Introduction
In 1999, Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith founded Redgate, a software company, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. They founded the company with the goals of working together to do something that was self-satisfying and to make a technical contribution by creating software tools (Chapman, 2013). The name Redgate was named after the street in Florence, Italy, Via Porta Rossa, where Neil Davidson once lived in (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate kick-started the company by producing their first software tool, Aardvark, a bug tracker and then moved on to developing other products like SQL and .NET (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate won eighth place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Company to Work for Award since 2007, running …show more content…
The form is depended on the organisation’s objectives along with strategy and in this case, Redgate’s objectives and strategies (WebFinance, 2016). In this topic, Redgate’s Divisional Organisational Structure and the Flat Organisational Structure will be discussed.
A Divisional Organisational Structure is created when the company groups certain positions into departments based on a product or the customers. In a Divisional Organisational Structure, there are divisions that function independently of one another and rely on the parent company in limited ways (Johnson, 2016). In Redgate, the development is split into 4 divisions formed based on their product’s maturity. Every division has a small amount of User Experience (UX) people, also known as the designer of product, that are in charge of enhancing and improving the product in a project team (Barbaroux, 2014). These UX people can be multi-disciplinary teams depending on the stage of a project and acquire various skills necessary by their project given (Bauer, …show more content…
However, Redgate leaders’ leadership traits can be pinpointed based on their past experiences, making them what they are today. Simon Galbraith and Neil Davidson, Redgate’s co-founders, both possess the intelligence trait. The intelligence trait states that an intelligent person has the ability to learn and make judgements based on relevant reasons (Boundless, 2016). It is basically investing time to learn lifelong educational experiences (Shead, 2010). To prove this, Simon studied Physics in University of Cambridge and received a Doctorate (PhD) (CrunchBase Inc, 2016). On the other hand, Neil did his second degree in the Open University after taking a short break from Redgate and at the end of January 2013, he decided to leave Redgate to study full time in that university (Davidson, 2012). Thus, both co-founders have sufficient intelligence to make good company based decisions with the experience they received throughout the
In 1999, Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith founded Redgate, a software company, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. They founded the company with the goals of working together to do something that was self-satisfying and to make a technical contribution by creating software tools (Chapman, 2013). The name Redgate was named after the street in Florence, Italy, Via Porta Rossa, where Neil Davidson once lived in (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate kick-started the company by producing their first software tool, Aardvark, a bug tracker and then moved on to developing other products like SQL and .NET (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate won eighth place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Company to Work for Award since 2007, running …show more content…
The form is depended on the organisation’s objectives along with strategy and in this case, Redgate’s objectives and strategies (WebFinance, 2016). In this topic, Redgate’s Divisional Organisational Structure and the Flat Organisational Structure will be discussed.
A Divisional Organisational Structure is created when the company groups certain positions into departments based on a product or the customers. In a Divisional Organisational Structure, there are divisions that function independently of one another and rely on the parent company in limited ways (Johnson, 2016). In Redgate, the development is split into 4 divisions formed based on their product’s maturity. Every division has a small amount of User Experience (UX) people, also known as the designer of product, that are in charge of enhancing and improving the product in a project team (Barbaroux, 2014). These UX people can be multi-disciplinary teams depending on the stage of a project and acquire various skills necessary by their project given (Bauer, …show more content…
However, Redgate leaders’ leadership traits can be pinpointed based on their past experiences, making them what they are today. Simon Galbraith and Neil Davidson, Redgate’s co-founders, both possess the intelligence trait. The intelligence trait states that an intelligent person has the ability to learn and make judgements based on relevant reasons (Boundless, 2016). It is basically investing time to learn lifelong educational experiences (Shead, 2010). To prove this, Simon studied Physics in University of Cambridge and received a Doctorate (PhD) (CrunchBase Inc, 2016). On the other hand, Neil did his second degree in the Open University after taking a short break from Redgate and at the end of January 2013, he decided to leave Redgate to study full time in that university (Davidson, 2012). Thus, both co-founders have sufficient intelligence to make good company based decisions with the experience they received throughout the