Organizational Architecture Designs for Changing Organizations [Hardcover]

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.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. Designing and implementing an organization that is effective for a pl#X