Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40429 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
“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

From the Back Cover

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/decentralization dilemma

• Organizing for innovation

Designing Your Organization is written for managers and leaders who make critical choices about organizational strategy and execution as well as for human resource and organization design and development professionals who help implement these decisions.

This important resource includes a CD-ROM.

Praise for Designing Your Organization

"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 and Kates offer 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

About the Author

Amy Kates is principal partner with Downey Kates Associates, an organization design and development consulting firm located in New York City.

Jay R. Galbraith is professor emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive and lots of ideas/guidance
This book from Amy Kates/Jay Galbraith provides a useful addition to their earlier 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 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 organisation design principles see their 2002 book mentioned above.

Stan Felstead. Interchange Resources UK.