Aligned Yellow Bricks: The Road Back to Kansas - Softcover

Woodward, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595336620 ISBN 13: 9780595336623

Publisher: iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

Aligned Yellow Bricks demonstrates the critical need for strategic vision when creating and maintaining balanced organizational structures and aligned workplace activities. Author Bob Woodward illustrates the effectiveness of this approach by citing descriptive examples from the mythical Professor Marvel Manufacturing Corporation to better-known business giants including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, and General Electric.The framework for establishing goal-based structural alignment and building a strategic roadmap can be found in the following questions:What are the primary goals of the organization?Has the organizational structure been aligned to effectively execute the actions necessary to achieve those goals?Have balanced metrics been defined to measure and integrate the aligned actions necessary to achieve those goals?Does the reward system create the incentives necessary to spur those appropriate actions?Aligned Yellow Bricks presents a logical and progressive methodology for success, while preventing unproductive "whirlwinds" of misaligned activity and Oz-like illusions of accomplishment. This step-by-step guide provides the direction to keep any organization grounded and steadily progressing along the strategic road to effective organizational achievement.

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About the Author

Bob Woodward is a strategic business solutions provider with global experiences spanning 40 countries. He currently works for a two-time Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award winning company in North Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595336620
• ISBN 13: 9780595336623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114