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.

Alan P. Brache is a partner and executive vice president of Kepner-Tregoe, Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey-based consulting and training firm specializing in strategic and operational improvement. He is coauthor of the business bestseller Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart. Brache has addressed groups of business executives in twenty-two countries and has contributed dozens of articles to major business publications. He can be reached at abrache@kepner-tregoe.com