The dictionary defines specialization as concentrating in a certain field. For example, a math teacher specializes on math. So how can we relate this to business?
Specialization is connected to the size/scale of organizations. Actually, it is directly proportional. The bigger the company is, the more you need specialists and departments. Departments only exist because you have specialization fields.
In my opinion, specialization is an advantage for companies. For instance, in the Kellogg’s case study, we saw that Kellogg’s only works in its specialist area, manufacturing. By concentrating in only manufacturing, they can manufacture better products and provide better services to their customers. Even though I strongly believe that specialization is good for companies, I agree with Mr. Sen also. He said that, if you, as a company, specialize too much, you can’t see the other connections between your job and other things. Well, I agree with this statement either. If a company is not aware of other sectors, it might have some difficulties. So, I ended up agreeing with the statement; ‘specialization is good, but not that good.’
Being too narrowly focused on specialized skills or capacities prevents a company (or an individual) from responding rapidly to changes in the environment. In both cases, the prevailing mindset blinds the company or the individual to such changes: they lose the capacity to see the changes coming. E.g., students keep thinking that they will have specialized jobs like their parents, and therefore they must specialize in a profession like engineering or law or medicine. In the coming decades, the very idea of a job or profession itself is likely to change. You will need to be flexible enough to adapt to sucvh changes.
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