The Automated CEO: Can Technology Replace Middle Managers?

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The Automated CEO
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1THE AUTOMATED CEO
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
The differences between flat organizations and traditional bureaucratic hierarchies............2
The possibility that information technology can eliminate the middle manager positions....3
The management, organization, and technology issues should to be decided to move from a
traditional bureaucracy to a flatter organization....................................................................4
Possibility that a manager can be replaced by technology and the procedure to do it...........5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
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2THE AUTOMATED CEO
Introduction
There have been reports about a new product for Workable Future Initiative about a
new product called iCEO, which is a virtual management system and helps in automating the
complex works in an organisation segregating it into several smaller individual tasks. The
trial run for iCEO was made for superintending a report consisting of 124 pages for a certain
Fortune 50 company (Long 2018). This idea has been struck to various CEO round different
organisation irrespective of their industry and everyone wants to know if this can be included
in the business system. Therefore, this following research is conducted to find out the utility
of iCEO and how this automated system can eliminate the middle managers in the
organization and then add benefits to an organisation.
The differences between flat organizations and traditional bureaucratic
hierarchies
Flat organization: A flat organisation, also termed in the form of horizontal
organisation, consists of the structure of an organisation either having few or absolutely zero
levels of the people handling the middle management between executives and staffs. Mostly,
this is suitable for business organisation with small scale structure and less number of staff
(Piercy 2018). This helps the communication flowing through in every direction having only
one or two levels for the responsibility and authorities. The communication within a flat
organisational structure is direct and it reaches to the top management without any
middleman in between. The format of the communication is rather very casual.
Bureaucratic Hierarchical organization: Where on the other hand, traditional
bureaucratic hierarchical organisation is defined by the hierarchy to system within the
structure of the organisation including both private and public sectors. This depends on the