New ways to manage change and to compete in a rapidly changing
business world are emerging under the concept of the agile
enterprise. Agile organizations can be almost any size or type, but
what distinguishes them from their lumbering traditional business
counterparts is the ability to read and to react quickly. They can
also be virtual, meaning they can reconfigure themselves quickly
and temporarily in response to a challenge, which gives them
agility, but then dissolve or transmute themselves into something
else. Goranson explains how they do this and how your own
organization can do it too. With fascinating case studies and a
unique metric, Goranson provides answers. The result is essential
reading for management at almost any level within every type of
organization.
Now that serious management tools are beginning to appear, the
agile virtual enterprise is no longer just a theoretical
possibility--it's real. In fact, although they were never actually
described that way, virtual organizations can be found throughout
history, from the whaling companies of the 19th century through the
film studios of the 20th. Goranson describes many of these
businesses and gives us an understanding of how they evolved and
why they worked. Of special interest is his metric. It requires no
technical background to be understood and applied, yet it digs
deeply into the philosophy of strategic management as well as its
practicalities. Goranson also reports for the first time on the
large scale research sponsored by the U.S. military to advance the
state of the art in management science and to create the tools that
eventually made the agile virtual enterprise what it is today.
General
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 1999 |
| First published: |
September 1999 |
| Authors: |
Ted Goranson
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-56720-264-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-56720-264-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781567202649 |
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