Qualitative Differences in Attenuators: Country office to headquarters signalling in international companies

When the law of reciprocity of connections is systemised in international organisations, the centre has both a real and a perceived need to turn down the volume on feedback from the broad organisation. This talk brings up some variations of information flow controls in organisations, and their function as attenuators. When you can discuss the variations of volume controls, listening to the organisation might become slightly less scary for headquarters. A few examples of attenuator types: Standardized signal shape Limited signal frequency Layers of filtering  The examples are accounted for as they were observed in these types of settings that the lecturer worked within or was a co-designer of: In a stable context (org. design): Fractal levels of continuous improvement units for store service org. in retail company Change requests in business technology operating model for internal services of an equipment producer In a temporary context(project/implementation): Process design procedure for logistics company Greenfield IT service platform implementation in retail company TBM Taxonomy implementation in security solutions company.