Designing adaptive organizations
- New York Cambridge University Press 2024
- xiii, 224 p.
Table of content: 1. Design thinking in organization design Jeanne Liedtka 2. The open organization Christopher Lettl, Thomas Ritter and Carsten Lund Pedersen 3. Actor-oriented organizing Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Charles C. Snow 4. Collaborative conflict management Vivianna Fang He and Phanish Puranam 5. The platform organization Annabelle Gawer, Michael A. Cusumano and David B. Yoffie 6. Circular organizing John A. Mathews 7. Organizing intelligent digital actors Vegard Kolbjørnsrud 8. Agile organizing Stéphane J. G. Girod 9. The global organization Amy Kates and Greg Kesler 10. Performance-focused organizing Scott A. Snell and Kenneth J. Carrig 11. The healthy organization Ian Hesketh and Cary L. Cooper 12. Modern organizing Charles C. Snow and Øystein D. Fjeldstad.
The ability to organize is our most valuable social technology and the successful organizational design of an enterprise can increase its efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to adapt. Modern organizations operate in increasingly complex, dynamic, and global environments, which puts a premium on rapid adaptation. Compared to traditional organizations, modern organizations are flatter and more open to their environments. Their processes are more generative and interactive – actors themselves generate and coordinate solutions rather than follow hierarchically devised plans and directives. They also search outside their boundaries for resources wherever they may exist, and co-produce products and services with suppliers, customers, and partners, collaborating – both internally and externally – to learn and become more capable. In this volume, leading voices in the field of organization design demonstrate how a combination of agile processes, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms can power adaptive, sustainable, and healthy organizations.
Presents a novel view of organization design, offering readers a framework for understanding 21st century organizing Leading voices in the field provide theoretically sound and actionable knowledge on how to design adaptive organizations from a wide range of disciplinary viewpoints, including: change management, strategy, economics, psychology, IT, and sociology Provides numerous examples of new organizing concepts in a variety of settings, enabling readers to apply modern designs to their own environments