Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations
Reveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.
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Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations
Reveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.
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Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations

Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations

Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations

Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations

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Overview

Reveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781555424435
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 08/04/1992
Series: Jossey-Bass Leadership Series , #192
Edition description: 1st
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.49(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

DAVID A. NADLER is president of the Delta Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in assisting senior management in strategic organizational change. MARC C. GERSTEIN is managing director at the Delta Consulting Group. ROBERT B. SHAW is a director at the Delta Consulting Group.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Organizational Architecture: A Metaphor forChange.

ARCHITECTURES OF CHANGE.

1. From Machine Bureaucracies to Networked Organizations: AnArchitectural Journey.

2. Designing Organizations That Have Good Fit: A Framework forUnderstanding New Architectures.

DESIGNING FORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS.

3. Managing the Dynamics of Acquisitions: Successfully Moving fromDecision to Integration.

4. Building Strategic Partnerships: Creating and Managing EffectiveJoint Ventures.

5. Designing High-Performance Work Systems: Organizing People,Work, Technology, and Information.

TRANSFORMING THE INFORMAL ORGANIZATION.

6. Implementing Total Quality Management: A Process of CulturalChange.

7. The Capacity to Act: Creating a Context for Empowerment.

8. Teaching Organizations to Learn: The Power for ProductiveFailures.

DESIGNING SENIOR MANAGEMENT.

9. Strategic Selection: Staffing the Executive Team.

10. Teamwork at the Top: Creating Executive Teams That Work.

11. Strategic Choice: Engaging the Executive Team in CollaborativeStrategy Planning.

THE ROAD FROM DECLINE TO COMPETITIVENESS.

12. Key Leverage Points for Improving CompetitivePerformance.

13. Organizational Architecture for the Twenty-First Century.
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