The Organization Design Guide
A Pragmatic Framework for Thoughtful, Efficient and Successful Redesigns
- 278 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Organization Design Guide
A Pragmatic Framework for Thoughtful, Efficient and Successful Redesigns
About this book
Organization redesign exercises consume enormous time, resources and energy, and yet they so often get stuck midway or fail to deliver the aspired benefits. This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive guide, enabling executives and their teams to have nuanced and in-depth discussions about substantive design choices. Once these choices are clear, the teams can confidently initiate the change process.
The book brings together the building blocks of organization design thinking into a logical flow. It offers a high-quality framework, with each building block broken down into specific design questions. For each of the five categories of design variables – architecture, processes, culture, people and technology – the book enables executives to discover and weigh up a variety of situation-specific design alternatives. The book steers clear of academic abstractions, simplistic formulaic solutions, flavor-of-the-year debates and misleading anecdotes from today's superstar firms. It is written for smart executives at mainstream companies who realize that organization design choices are contextual and influenced by their company's specific history.
The book presents a pragmatic framework that guides managers in search of a conclusive and efficient organization design process. It is relevant to C-suite executives and directors, as well as senior and middle managers, internal project leaders and organization design consultants.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Endorsement page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors
- 1 Foundations and promises
- 2 Macroview of the framework
- 3 Drivers of change
- 4 Design criteria and degrees of freedom
- 5 The core of the concept design phase
- 6 The primary verticals
- 7 The role of the corporate parent
- 8 Centralization versus decentralization
- 9 Lateral coordination
- 10 Governance
- 11 Processes
- 12 Culture
- 13 People
- 14 Technology
- 15 Model operationalization
- 16 Day 1 readiness
- 17 Course corrections
- Index