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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 ground-breaking 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.
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 ground-breaking 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.
Fad-Free Strategy provides a ground-breaking approach to making
better business strategy decisions: more efficient, open to
out-of-the-box opportunities and evidence-based. Most strategy
books focus on Grand Strategy, the process that leads to high-level
recommendations or, more accurately, hypotheses about where and how
to compete. While this book briefly covers critical Grand Strategy
practices, it deep dives into Operational Strategy, the process of
validation, adaptation and possible rejection of those hypotheses.
Operational Strategy is based on an in-depth understanding of
customer preferences and anticipating the choices they make. Those
choices rather than managers' ambitions determine whether a
strategy will generate the aspired financial results. The book
explains, by means of detailed real-world cases across industries,
how to generate validated solutions to any strategic problem such
as: how to enter successfully into new markets, either as an
innovator or as a latecomer? How to defend one's position against
aggressive new entrants? Or how to sustain margins when price is
the only thing customers seem to care about? This remarkable book
contains expert advice from accomplished strategic advisors and
thought leaders Daniel Deneffe and Herman Vantrappen. Fad Free
Strategy will be a useful tool for smart business executives at
mainstream companies who are disappointed with strategy fads and
simplistic solutions based on cherry-picked, anecdotal evidence
from today's hero companies. It will also appeal to economics
faculty members teaching graduate courses in business strategy who
are looking for an economics-based strategy textbook that is both
rigorous and comprehensive. The book's core ideas have been taught
successfully in continuing and executive education programs at
Harvard University and Hult International Business School.
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