Guide to Organisation Design : Creating high-performing and adaptable enterprises.

✍ Scribed by Economist, The; Stanford, Naomi

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 465
• Series: Economist Books.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

5 Measurement; Choosing measurement tools; Measurement principles; Reflections on this case; Tools for this case; Summary; 6 Stakeholder engagement; Five steps of the stakeholder engagement process; Factors indicating stakeholder engagement; Reflections on this case; Tools for this case; Summary; 7 Leadership and organisation design; Formal leadership in organisation design; Informal leadership; Working together; Reflections on this case; Tools for this case; Summary; 8 Culture and group processes; Organisational culture; Group processes; Reflections on this case; Tools for this case.

9 Morphing not future proofing; Why morphing capacity is required; Building the capability to morph; Reflections on this case; Tools for this case; Summary; Notes; General; 1 Introducing organisation design; 2 Models, approaches and designs; 3 Organisational structures; 4 Planning and sequencing the organisation design; 5 Measurement; 6 Stakeholder engagement; 7 Leadership and organisation design; 8 Culture and group processes; 9 Morphing not future proofing; Appendix 1 Organisation design models; Appendix 2 Useful sources of information; Books; Journals, magazines and newspapers.

Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17,043 businesses will fail (in the UK) in 2006, a further 4 per cent increase from 2005'. In America between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups and over 5.7 million business shut-downs. Risk of failure can be greatly reduced through effective organisational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances. Organisation design is a straightforward business process but curiously managers rarely ta.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Introducing organisation design
Organisation design: what it is and what it is not
Designing is driven by the business strategy and the operating context
Designing means holistic thinking about the organisation
Designing for the future is a better bet than designing for now
Designing is not to be undertaken lightly --
it is resource intensive even when going well
Designing is a fundamental process not a repair job
Summary
2 Models, approaches and designs
Models
Approaches
Designs
Reflections on the case study
Tools for this case
Summary. 3 Organisational structuresFunctional structure
Divisional/product structure
Divisional/geographic or market structure
Divisional/process structure
Divisional/customer structure
Matrix structure
Network structure
Cluster structure
"Life-form" structure
Structure decisions
Layers and spans
Reflections on the case study
Tools for this case
Summary
4 Planning and sequencing the organisation design
High-level design plan and sequence
The business case for change
The organisation design programme
The four phases of the design process
Reflections on this case
Tools for this case. Organisations and communitiesResources and tools
Appendix 3 Glossary
PublicAffairs Colophon.

✦ Subjects

Organizational change Business planning BUSINESS ECONOMICS Industrial Management Science Behavior