Johannes (Hans) Strikwerda (born 3 December 1952,

Naaldwijk Naaldwijk () is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 10 km southwest of The Hague. Naaldwijk lies in the heart of Westland. The largest economic sector is greenhouse ...

) is a Dutch organizational theorist, management consultant, and Professor of Business Administration at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

, known for his work on implementation of

shared services center A shared services center – a center for shared services in an organization – is the entity responsible for the execution and the handling of specific operational tasks, such as accounting, human resources, payroll, IT, legal, complia ...

s in the public sector,Minnaar, Reinald A., and Ed GJ Vosselman.
Shared service centres and management control structure change: exploring the scope and limitations of a transaction cost economics approach
" ''Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change'' 9.1 (2013): 74-98. and on the concept of

multidimensional organization A multidimensional organization is an organization that pursues its objectives simultaneously through multiple dimensions ( product, region, account, market segment). The multidimensional organization was discussed as early as the 1970s. It requi ...

Biography

Strikwerda obtained his BA in applied mathematics at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...

in 1976, and in 1979 his MBA at the Inter-Faculty of Business Administration in Delft, now

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. In 1994 he obtained his PhD from the

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with the thesis, entitled "Organisatie-advisering, Wetenschap en Pragmatisme" (Organizational consulting: science and pragmatism)" under supervision of John Rijsman. After his graduation in Delft Strikwerda started his career in several positions at the Dutch Government, and was business consultant at the Philips Electronics from 1994 to 1998. In 1995 he started as founder the Nolan Norton Institute, a management consultancy firm, and in 1996 he was appointed Professor of Organization and Change at the

. In 2005 he was elected most influential management consultant in the Netherlands.

Work

Shared services centers

Minnaar & Vosselman (2013) explained, that the

is a "rather independent organizational unit that provides services to various other organizational units. This concept solves the problem that each business unit is engaged in tasks that do not belong to its core business, such as HRM, IT and Accounting and Finance. Because of improved ICT, it is now possible to concentrate these kinds of tasks in a separate service unit and to realize economies of scale." Strikwerda (2005) had determined that with the introduction of shared services centers the "benefits of a divisional business organization are kept, but without the cost disadvantages."

Multidimensional organizations

In the 2007 paper "The Emergence of the Multidimensional Organization" Strikwerda explained the development of the concept:

The concept of the multidimensional organization has been written about by a number of authors ( Ackoff, 1977; Ackoff, 1994; Galbraith, 2005; Prahalad, 1980; Prahalad & Doz, 1979; Reber & Strehl, 1988). However none of the other publications on organization forms, especially Williamson (1985) do mention the multidimensional organization (and neither of the so much discussed matrix-organization). Apparently the concept of the multidimensional organization has got lost in the literature...

However, Strikwerda concluded that "the rediscovery of the multidimensional organization, including an understanding of its working, first of all provides entrepreneurs, executives, managers, workers and investors with new opportunities to pursue opportunities and to create wealth."Strikwerda (2007), p. 40.

Selected publications

* Strikwerda, J. ''Shared service centers.'' Van Gorcum, 2004. * Strikwerda, Hans. ''Growth, Governance and Organisation: On power strategy and modular organisation.'' Nolan, Norton & Company, 2005. * Strikwerda, Hans. ''Van unitmanagement naar de multidimensionale organisatie.'' Uitgeverij Van Gorcum, 2008. * Strikwerda, Johannes. ''Shared service centers II: van kostenbesparing naar waardecreatie.'' Uitgeverij Van Gorcum, 2010. Articles, a selection: * Strikwerda, J.
Postmodernisme, postmoderne organisaties en implicaties voor management control
" ''Maandblad Voor Accountancy En Bedrijfseconomie'' 15.41 (2003): 242-242. * Strikwerda, J.
Na het shared service center: de modulaire organisatie
" Holland Management Review 23 (2006): 45–50. * Strikwerda, J.
The Emergence of the Multidimensional Organization
'' 2007 paper, p. 9-10.

References

External links

J. Strikwerda
at strikwerda.org. {{DEFAULTSORT:Strikwerda, Hans 1952 births Living people Dutch business theorists University of Groningen alumni Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Tilburg University alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam People from Naaldwijk