Here is an example of a hybrid organization. What can you to do improve it? Draw a sketch.


It’s worth analyzing for objects and actions (nouns and verbs). Here is a possible first analysis:

Objects Actions Individual accounts Open an Account New Customers Track a Package Small Business Center Schedule a Pickup e-Commerce Support Order Shipping Supplies

Actions often lend themselves to a task-oriented organization. Looking at the objects, it appears that there are new customers, individual customers, small business customers and e-Commerce customers. While the distinction between small businesses and e-Commerce businesses is definitely a bit on the fuzzy side, the best fit for this set of objects would be an audience-specific organization.

Since this is such a small number of links, you could put the tasks in one menu and the audiences in another. As long as these are physically separate on the page, it’s a good solution. Here are a couple possibilities:



Here, one set of links is horizontal and runs along the top of the page. The other is vertically oriented and runs along the left side of the page

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