Abstract
In traditional organization structures focused on project orientation, there is few margins to develop and implement new management approaches and technologies. Strengthened functional departments can promote changes in a more consistent and longstanding way than temporary project teams, once they accumulate knowledge when collaborating with other business functions in multiple projects. The purpose of this position paper is to discuss an alternative organizational structure on behalf of innovation based on P2M. The mindset shift follows the creation of a new function named Catalysts in functional departments, responsible for reducing barriers to Kaikaku and accelerating the transformation process. The Catalyst intermediate and align strategic vision of top management and people in the workplace, taking advantage of learning cycles to guide consistent proposals and negotiate resources to enable Kaikaku at programs.
