The Boundaryless Organization

Author : Ron Ashkenas,Dave Ulrich,Todd Jick,Steve Kerr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119177876

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The Boundaryless Organization by Ron Ashkenas,Dave Ulrich,Todd Jick,Steve Kerr Pdf

In 1995 The Boundaryless Organization showed companies how to sweep away the artificial obstacles-such as hierarchy, turf, and geography-that get in the way of outstanding business performance. Now, in this completely revised edition of their groundbreaking work, management experts Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr offer an up-to-date version of their comprehensive guide to help any organization go "boundaryless"-and become a company with the ability to quickly, proactively, and creatively adjust to changes in the environment. With new examples, a new commentary on the developments of the last five years, and illuminating first-hand accounts from pioneering senior executives, the authors once again show why "boundaryless" is a prerequisite for any organization trying to succeed in the economy of the twenty-first century.

Author : R. Ashkenas,D. Ulrich,T. Jick,S. Kerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:800437927

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The boundaryless organization by R. Ashkenas,D. Ulrich,T. Jick,S. Kerr Pdf

Author : David Ulrich,Steve Kerr,Ron Ashkenas
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071406321

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The GE Work-Out by David Ulrich,Steve Kerr,Ron Ashkenas Pdf

Famous "Work-Out" change-management tool explained by the people who helped develop it. GE's legendary Work-Out program played a key role in the company's phenomenal success over the past decade and has been implemented in many other organizations. Now three executives and consultants who developed the original Work-Out approach at GEoften working directly with CEO Jack Welchdiscuss the inner workings of Work-Out and their experiences at successfully implementing the program at GE. Filled with effective assessment and decisionmaking tools, The GE Work-Out provides concrete and realistic guidance for anyone who wants to implement Work-Out and break down bureaucracy and hierarchy within an organization.

Author : N. Paulsen,T. Hernes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230512559

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Managing Boundaries in Organizations by N. Paulsen,T. Hernes Pdf

Drawing together an international group of scholars, this book provides fresh and provocative perspectives on boundaries in organizations. The emergence, management and transformation of organizational boundaries is intrinsic to modern organization and poses one of the most persistent and potentially rewarding challenges to researchers and managers alike. The book offers the latest insights into the nature of boundaries, how they may be interpreted and studied, as well as implications for managing. The chapters include theoretical perspectives and cases from Europe, Canada, the USA, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Author : Ron Ashkenas,Dave Ulrich,Todd Jick,Steve Kerr
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 078795943X

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The Boundaryless Organization by Ron Ashkenas,Dave Ulrich,Todd Jick,Steve Kerr Pdf

In 1995 The Boundaryless Organization showed companies how to sweep away the artificial obstacles-such as hierarchy, turf, and geography-that get in the way of outstanding business performance. Now, in this completely revised edition of their groundbreaking work, management experts Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr offer an up-to-date version of their comprehensive guide to help any organization go "boundaryless"-and become a company with the ability to quickly, proactively, and creatively adjust to changes in the environment. With new examples, a new commentary on the developments of the last five years, and illuminating first-hand accounts from pioneering senior executives, the authors once again show why "boundaryless" is a prerequisite for any organization trying to succeed in the economy of the twenty-first century.

Author : Jacob Morgan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118877241

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The Future of Work by Jacob Morgan Pdf

Throughout the history of business employees had to adapt to managers and managers had to adapt to organizations. In the future this is reversed with managers and organizations adapting to employees. This means that in order to succeed and thrive organizations must rethink and challenge everything they know about work. The demographics of employees are changing and so are employee expectations, values, attitudes, and styles of working. Conventional management models must be replaced with leadership approaches adapted to the future employee. Organizations must also rethink their traditional structure, how they empower employees, and what they need to do to remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. This is a book about how employees of the future will work, how managers will lead, and what organizations of the future will look like. The Future of Work will help you: Stay ahead of the competition Create better leaders Tap into the freelancer economy Attract and retain top talent Rethink management Structure effective teams Embrace flexible work environments Adapt to the changing workforce Build the organization of the future And more The book features uncommon examples and easy to understand concepts which will challenge and inspire you to work differently.

Author : Michael B. Arthur,Denise M. Rousseau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190287641

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The Boundaryless Career by Michael B. Arthur,Denise M. Rousseau Pdf

Organizational restructuring and global, hypercompetition have revolutionized careers and destroyed the traditional blueprint for advancement and career success. This book details the new forms work takes in the new organizational era where worker mobility has become critical to the well-being and learning of both people and firms. The Boundaryless Career approaches the new principle of the boundaryless career in five directions. The first section helps the reader explore the nature of boundaryless careers by highlighting some of their essential elements. The second section turns to competitive advantage and the role of workers' knowledge. The thirs section concentrates on the role of the social structure in the organizing of work. The fourth section turns to focus on how boundaryless careers affect personal development and growth. The fifth section addresses the demands boundaryless careers create for schools, communities, and other social institutions. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors offer frameworks for conceptualizing careers now and in the future. The Boundaryless Career provides a conceptual map of new career and employment forms to the prospective benefit of people making career choices, companies re-crafting human resource practices, schools and universities re-considering their roles, and policy-makers concerned with regional or national competitiveness. It will be essential reading for scholars in a range of social science disciplines spanning themes of economics, management, education, organizational behavior, and the psychology and sociology of work. It will also appeal broadly to free thinkers interested in the changing nature of careers and employment as both people and firms tackle the realities of increasingly open markets and global competition.

Author : Steven Sinofsky,Marco Iansiti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470560457

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One Strategy by Steven Sinofsky,Marco Iansiti Pdf

Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-describes how you can drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the impact of operational execution. Lessons from the unique combination of real-world experience managing a large scale organization with academic research in strategy and innovation Reveals what it takes to align a complex organization around one strategy, manage its execution, and reach for "strategic integrity" Written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-a combined forty years of management and research experience A unique perspective on strategy development, alignment, and execution Drawn from Sinofsky's internal Microsoft blog where he communicated some of the management processes the team put to work while developing a 4,000 person, multi-year project-Microsoft Windows 7-One Strategy shares the hard-won insights you can use to successfully make the leap from strategy to execution.

Author : Ashkenas
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0787947474

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The Boundaryless Organization Field Guide by Ashkenas Pdf

Author : Ron Ashkenas,Todd Jick,Dave Ulrich,Catherine Paul-Chowdhury
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787943215

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The Boundaryless Organization Field Guide by Ron Ashkenas,Todd Jick,Dave Ulrich,Catherine Paul-Chowdhury Pdf

This hands-on kit contains everything managers need to put the strategies presented in The Boundaryless Organization into actual practice. Based on the renowned WorkOut process initiated at General Electric, this complete resource offers specific guidelines for facilitating dialogues that result in rapid, significant change. Practical tools include PowerPoint slides that reinforce key concepts, a diagnostic questionnaire for assessing your current boundaries, and exercises that apply boundaryless thinking to real-life scenarios. A leader's guide to WorkOut, process mapping, customer-supplier projects, and the employment of technology is also included.

Author : Ann Howard
Publisher : Pfeiffer
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UCSC:32106013706756

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The Changing Nature of Work by Ann Howard Pdf

Not since the Industrial Revolution has the world experienced such a vast transformation in the nature of work as is now in progress. The winds of change are buffeting the terms and conditions of work, its content, and its context. The rapidity and discontinuity of these changes produce discomfort and anxiety among employees and unprecedented challenges to the leadership of organizations. What will the future hold as information technology, global competition, and the quest for efficiency and flexibility rapidly displace jobs and workers? and how can human resource scientists and professionals anticipate what lies ahead and generate better understanding of emerging work behavior?The Changing Nature of Work envisions the future nature of work, its effect on workers and organizations, and the expanded knowledge that will be needed to optimize its returns. The book examines critical post-industrial transformations in work, workers, and the experience of working and assesses the implications of those changes. It investigates what is driving change at work, what is constraining it, and where work is headed as governments, societies, and work organizations respond to its revolutionary thrust.Demonstrating that most knowledge of work life is rooted in jobs, organizations, and workers of the past, Ann Howard and her contributors call for rethinking the psychology of work. In fourteen original chapters, leading authorities within and outside industrial and organizational psychology--including job design, personnel selection, training, teamwork, organizational commitment, careers, leadership, performance appraisal, political and labor economics, sociology, and information technology--question, test, revise, and expand the current body of knowledge about work behavior.The authors explore the human side of the changing nature of work in both service and manufacturing settings and provide new directions for the work and workers of tomorrow. They probe the challenges

Author : Arthur Yeung,Dave Ulrich
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633697713

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Reinventing the Organization by Arthur Yeung,Dave Ulrich Pdf

Your Company Isn't Fast Enough. Here's How to Change That. The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models--the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few--have emerged, but leaders need to know what really works. How do you build an organization that is responsive to fast-changing markets? What kind of organization delivers both speed and scale, and how do you lead it? Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich provide leaders with a much-needed blueprint for reinventing the organization. Based on their in-depth research at leading Chinese, US, and European firms such as Alibaba, Amazon, DiDi, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and Tencent, and drawing from their synthesis of the latest organization research and practice, Yeung and Ulrich explain how to build a new kind of organization (a "market-oriented ecosystem") that responds to changing market opportunities with speed and scale. While other books address individual pieces of the puzzle, Reinventing the Organization offers a practical, integrated, six-step framework and looks at all the decisions leaders need to make--choosing the right strategies, capabilities, structure, culture, management tools, and leadership--to deliver radically greater value in fast-moving markets. For any leader eager to build a stronger, more responsive organization and for all those in HR, organizational development, and consulting who will shape and deliver it, this book provides a much-needed roadmap for reinvention.

Author : The Open Group
Publisher : Van Haren
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087535032

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SOA Source Book by The Open Group Pdf

Software services are established as a programming concept, but their impact on the overall architecture of enterprise IT and business operations is not well-understood. This has led to problems in deploying SOA, and some disillusionment. The SOA Source Book adds to this a collection of reference material for SOA. It is an invaluable resource for enterprise architects working with SOA.The SOA Source Book will help enterprise architects to use SOA effectively. It explains: What SOA is How to evaluate SOA features in business terms How to model SOA How to use The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™) for SOA SOA governance This book explains how TOGAF can help to make an Enterprise Architecture. Enterprise Architecture is an approach that can help management to understand this growing complexity.

Author : Ron Ashkenas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Industrial organization
ISBN : 0787947458

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The Boundaryless Organization Field Guide by Ron Ashkenas Pdf

Author : Ralf Reichwald,Rolf T. Wigand
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540713951

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Information, Organization and Management by Ralf Reichwald,Rolf T. Wigand Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the economic and technical foundations for new organizational forms, relations and processes. It provides a wide range of underlying concepts and frameworks that help the reader understand the major forces driving organizational and marketplace change, rather than presenting these changes as simple outcomes of technological or management fads. Contains case studies are included.