Networked, scaled, and agile:
Kates, Amy
Networked, scaled, and agile: a design strategy for complex organizations - London Kogan Page 2021 - xv, 177 p.
Table of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction;Chapter - 01: The Central Design Problem;Chapter - 02: Operating Models;Chapter - 03: Organization Models;Chapter - 04: Vertical Organization - The Tower;Chapter - 05: Horizontal Organization - The Square;Chapter - 06: Leadership in the Tower and the Square;Chapter - 07: Design Challenge - Enterprise Capabilities;Chapter - 08: Design Challenge - Customer Solutions;Chapter - 09: Design Challenge - Faster Innovation;Chapter - 10: Conclusion
Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips.
Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.
9781789667790
Organizational effectiveness
Complex organizations
658.402 / KAT
Networked, scaled, and agile: a design strategy for complex organizations - London Kogan Page 2021 - xv, 177 p.
Table of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction;Chapter - 01: The Central Design Problem;Chapter - 02: Operating Models;Chapter - 03: Organization Models;Chapter - 04: Vertical Organization - The Tower;Chapter - 05: Horizontal Organization - The Square;Chapter - 06: Leadership in the Tower and the Square;Chapter - 07: Design Challenge - Enterprise Capabilities;Chapter - 08: Design Challenge - Customer Solutions;Chapter - 09: Design Challenge - Faster Innovation;Chapter - 10: Conclusion
Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips.
Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.
9781789667790
Organizational effectiveness
Complex organizations
658.402 / KAT