Simplifying Organizational Design
How to Get the Right People Doing the Right Things in the Right Way
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7494-7199-6 (ISBN)
Description
Organization design that helps rather than hinders your business growth us about much more than organograms. Information flows, decision making structures and informal networks are all critical. Traditional organisation design theory is out of touch. It focuses on formal reporting lines rather than the increasingly common matrix structures, and on the formal hierarchy rather than the informal, political environment in which most people operate day-to-day. It views issues such as management reporting and organizational culture separately, when in reality they are interlinked elements of the organizational system as a whole. Simplifying Organisational Design will help you focus on the problem you are trying to solve, for example cutting costs, improving morale, shifting work towards value-add activities, or increasing agility. It takes an up-to-date, practical framework which shows you how to drive growth through identifying and eliminating the complexity that is slowing you down.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-7199-6 (9780749471996)
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Simon Collinson is Dean of Birmingham Business School, Professor of International Business and Innovation, and Guangbiao Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, China. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Advanced Institute for Management (AIM) research and was recently appointed to the Council of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). He has held the roles of Associate Dean (MBAs) and Deputy Dean at WBS. Simon has over 20 years of executive teaching and consulting experience with a wide range of multinational companies. In the past year, this research has been featured in the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, the New Statesman and the US News and World Report. Simon is also Research Director at the Simplicity Partnership.www.birmingham.ac.uk/simon-collinson
Melvin Jay is a Founder and CEO of the Simplicity Partnership. He has over 25 years of commercial and consulting experience. Most recently, he was CEO and founder of the global consultancy Clear, which grew to over 100 consultants in less than 6 years. Melvin's early career was spent working for blue chip companies like Danone and Novartis, where he saw and battled the reality of complexity from the management side. As a consultant, he has worked with a wide variety of the world's biggest companies, across different sectors including, media, pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology and consumer goods. http://www.simplicity-consulting.com
Mary Pizzey is Senior Manager and part owner of Simplicity Partnership.Her early career was spent as an Organisation Design expert in Accenture's Strategy practice, followed by a stint as HomeServe's Head of Group Strategy. She has helped many of the world's largest organisations tackle organization design challenges, and works day in, day-out to lead Simplicity's clients through diagnosing and simplifying theirs.
Melvin Jay is a Founder and CEO of the Simplicity Partnership. He has over 25 years of commercial and consulting experience. Most recently, he was CEO and founder of the global consultancy Clear, which grew to over 100 consultants in less than 6 years. Melvin's early career was spent working for blue chip companies like Danone and Novartis, where he saw and battled the reality of complexity from the management side. As a consultant, he has worked with a wide variety of the world's biggest companies, across different sectors including, media, pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology and consumer goods. http://www.simplicity-consulting.com
Mary Pizzey is Senior Manager and part owner of Simplicity Partnership.Her early career was spent as an Organisation Design expert in Accenture's Strategy practice, followed by a stint as HomeServe's Head of Group Strategy. She has helped many of the world's largest organisations tackle organization design challenges, and works day in, day-out to lead Simplicity's clients through diagnosing and simplifying theirs.