Organizational Architecture Designs for

Reveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.

DAVID A. NADLER is president of the Delta Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in assisting senior management in strategic organizational change. MARC C. GERSTEIN is managing director at the Delta Consulting Group. ROBERT B. SHAW is a director at the Delta Consulting Group.

Introduction: Organizational Architecture: A Metaphor for Change.

ARCHITECTURES OF CHANGE.

1. From Machine Bureaucracies to Networked Organizations: An Architectural Journey.

2. Designing Organizations That Have Good Fit: A Framework for Understanding New Architectures.

DESIGNING FORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS.

3. Managing the Dynamics of Acquisitions: Successfully Moving from Decision to Integration.

4. Building Strategic Partnerships: Creating and Managing Effective Joint Ventures.

5. Designing High-Performance Work Systems: Organizing People, Work, Technology, and Information.

TRANSFORMING THE INFORMAL ORGANIZATION.

6. Implementing Total Quality Management: A Process of Cultural Change.

7. The Capacity to Act: Creating a Context for Empowerment.

8. Teaching Organizations to Learn: The Power for Productive Failures.

DESIGNING SENIOR MANAGEMENT.

9. Strategic Selection: Staffing the Executive Team.

10. Teamwork at the Top: Creating Executive Teams That Work.

11. Strategic Choice: Engaging the Executive Team in Collaborative Strategy Planning.

THE ROAD FROM DECLINE TO COMPETITIVENESS.

12. Key Leverage Points for Improving Competitive Performance.

13. Organizational Architecture for the Twenty-First Century.

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Organizational Architecture Designs for Changing Organizations

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