A mechanistic designis more appropriate for a firm with stable or low uncertainty in its external environment.

An organization can use its skills and knowledge (core competencies) to produce unique or differentiated products or services following a differentiation strategy. In this case, it should develop new and innovative products and bring them to market quickly. This requires organizational flexibility and innovations with a high level of communication and coordination among important functions such as production, marketing and R&D. Therefore, firms should follow organic design.

Both the unit production and process production require a higher level of direct supervision and decentralized decision making, that is it needs to be responsive to customers. The overall structure is organic.