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“Jay Galbraith and Amy Kates provide the compass, charts, essential tools and supplies for the journey to organization effectiveness in dynamic times. Designing Your Organization, brought forth at a time of major challenges to global business and national priorities, brings contemporary organization decisions into focus and provides clear advice to achieve business performance today and tomorrow.”––John D. Hofmeister, president and U.S. country chair, Shell Oil Company
“Should be used by every leader seeking to give their organization a competitive advantage. Galbraith offers a practical framework to align a corporation’s organizational structure with its business strategy.”––Thomas J. Falk, chairman and CEO, Kimberly–Clark Corporation
“Starting several decades ago, Jay Galbraith wrote a series of books that essentially defined the field of modern organization design. Now, with deceptive simplicity, compelling logic, and immense practicality, he and Amy Kates have summarized in a single place what every manager needs to know about this vitally important subject.”––Thomas W. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management; director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management; and author, The Future of Work
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Designing Your Organization is a hands–on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith’s widely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leaders execute their strategy. The authors address the five specific design challenges that confront most of today’s organizations:
· Designing around the customer
· Organizing across borders
· Making a matrix work
· Solving the centralization—and decentralization dilemma
· Organizing for innovation
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Format:Paperback
This book from Amy Kates/Jay Galbraith provides a useful addition to their earliar work - Designing Dynamic Organisations. I found the chapter on solving the centralisation - decentralisation dilemma very helpful, and the coverage of organisation for innovation provides a wide range of pointers for the reader who is dealing with this topic.
The first chapter provides a review of the key concepts and principles of organisation design giving a good lead into the rest of the book. If you want a deeper treatment, in terms of a step by step guide, to approaching organisation design see their 2002 book mentioned above.
Some additional material that I reccomend that you look at is:
- Integrated Organisation Design - the new Strategic priority for HR Directors.
This is a white paper - 09/01 published Jan 2009, and can be obtained free, download from CPHR. (The centre for performance-led HR, Lancaster University Mangement School)
This is the first part of a wider ranging project. Bringing together Organisation Development and Organization Design. Into a "new" capability called, by the authors - architectural design.
It covers the ground well and will challenge your views. Picks up on Galbraiths work eg the Five star model.
The Harvard Business Review July/August 2010, has a very good article on Organization Design, if you are seeking to make changes in this area.
- The Decision Driven Organization.
The main thrust of the article is "forget the organization chart - the secret is to focus on decisions not structure."
Stan Felstead. Interchange Resources UK.
The first chapter provides a review of the key concepts and principles of organisation design giving a good lead into the rest of the book. If you want a deeper treatment, in terms of a step by step guide, to approaching organisation design see their 2002 book mentioned above.
Some additional material that I reccomend that you look at is:
- Integrated Organisation Design - the new Strategic priority for HR Directors.
This is a white paper - 09/01 published Jan 2009, and can be obtained free, download from CPHR. (The centre for performance-led HR, Lancaster University Mangement School)
This is the first part of a wider ranging project. Bringing together Organisation Development and Organization Design. Into a "new" capability called, by the authors - architectural design.
It covers the ground well and will challenge your views. Picks up on Galbraiths work eg the Five star model.
The Harvard Business Review July/August 2010, has a very good article on Organization Design, if you are seeking to make changes in this area.
- The Decision Driven Organization.
The main thrust of the article is "forget the organization chart - the secret is to focus on decisions not structure."
Stan Felstead. Interchange Resources UK.
Format:Paperback
This book is worth a read.The authors have made a useful modification to the STAR model in this book and there is a CD-ROM with some useful worksheets that you are free to distribute.I have read the book through a couple of times and I think I prefer Designing Dynamic Organisations better. However, put the 2 together and you have a very sound body of knowledge and a very useful framework for assessing and reconfiguring the design of your organisation.
Format:Paperback
Organization consultants Amy Kates and Jay R. Galbraith have produced a big book - big in its scope and in its potential to influence management thinking in five key areas. Beginning with a primer on organizational design, the book focuses directly and insightfully on some of the major questions facing everyone from entrepreneurs in their garages to CEOs in their corner offices: How can companies best serve customers? How can firms effectively serve clients domestically and in foreign markets? How can you adopt what is best about a matrix structure without gumming up the works? How much centralization is too much, and how much decentralization is too little? How can companies, especially those that are already successful, promote innovation? In chapters packed full of considerations, suggestions and actionable ideas, Kates and Galbraith steer you through complexity. Unfortunately, by trying to integrate wide-ranging ideas with a reliance on their "Star Model," they introduce a bit of complexity of their own: The Star Model clearly has value as a consulting tool, but in this text, it often seems present by default rather than by necessity, a condition that the authors would never tolerate in an organization. Nonetheless, getAbstract recommends this book as a guide for anyone who makes decisions or gives input on structuring an organization. This is one of those books to keep handy on the shelf and return to when approaching a big change or reacting to an emerging problem.
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