How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health

A groundbreaking approach to successful performance improvement
Almost every executive in business today is faced with the challenge of improving performance, from incremental improvements to wholesale organizational change. Here, a world–renowned expert in organizational improvement asserts that most hard–won changes don′t last for long, however, because of the inability to identify the root causes of the problem. How Organizations Work offers a clear, integrated solution to performance improvement via a new "Enterprise Model"–which takes into account all variables that influence performance. Alan Brache provides a comprehensive "physical exam" for checking an organization′s vital signs and a 360–degree picture of how organizational dynamics can be harnessed to effect permanent improvements in performance.

Spis treści:
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1: Exploring the New Enterprise Model.
Chapter 2: Understanding the External Business Environment.
Chapter 3: Leading the Enterprise.
Chapter 4: Creating Strategic Alignment.
Chapter 5: Rethinking Business Processes.
Chapter 6: Setting Goals and Measuring Progress.
Chapter 7: Reframing Culture.
Chapter 8: Managing Human Capabilities.
Chapter 9: Leveraging Information and Knowledge.
Chapter 10: Putting Organization Structure in Its Place.
Chapter 11: Resolving Business Issues.
Chapter 12: Putting It All Together.
Index.