Guide to Organisation Design: Creating High-performing and Adaptable Enterprises (Economist Books) - Softcover

Stanford, Naomi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610395395 ISBN 13: 9781610395397

Publisher: Economist the, 2015

Synopsis

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 talk about it and even more rarely take steps to consciously design or redesign their business for success.
This new Economist guide explores the five principles of effective organisation design, which are that it must be: driven by the business strategy and the operating context (not by a new IT system, a new leader wanting to make an impact, or some other non-business reason). involve holistic thinking about the organisation be for the future rather than for now not to be undertaken lightly - it is resource intensive even when going well be seen as a fundamental process not a repair job. (Racing cars are designed and built. They are then kept in good repair.)

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About the Authors

Naomi Stanford is an organization design consultant based outside Washington D.C. Before moving to the United States she lived and worked in Britain as a senior organizational development consultant for companies such as Marks & Spencer, British Airways, Xerox, Price Waterhouse Cooper, and Prudential.
She supervises doctoral students in the School of Business and Technology at the on-line school Capella University.

Naomi Stanford is an organization design consultant based outside Washington D.C. Before moving to the United States she lived and worked in Britain as a senior organizational development consultant for companies such as Marks & Spencer, British Airways, Xerox, Price Waterhouse Cooper, and Prudential. She supervises doctoral students in the School of Business and Technology at the online school Capella University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Economist the
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610395395
• ISBN 13: 9781610395397
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334