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Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
ISBN: 026263273X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 214
BUY ON AMAZON
Table of Contents
BackCover
Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
The 20th-Century Organization
The Old Order Upended
What s Happening Now?
History of the Initiative
Outline of the Book
Note
References
Part II: What Is Changing?
Chapter 2: The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited
Theoretical Background
Investment Incentives are Not Provided by Ownership Alone
Firm Boundaries are Responsive to More than Investment Incentives
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Is Empowerment Just a Fad? Control, Decision Making, and IT
How Will IT Affect Centralization and Decentralization?
Radically Decentralized Organizations
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Beyond Computation - Information Technology, Organizational Transformation, and Business Performance
Case Examples
Large-Sample Empirical Evidence on IT, Organization, and Productivity
The Divergence of Firm-Level and Aggregate Studies on IT and Productivity
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 5: The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy
Businesses of One
The Temporary Company
The Transformation of Management
Thinking About the Future
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 6: Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organizations - Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-Encompassing Virtual Countries ?
Scenario Contents
Scenario One: Small Companies, Large Networks
Scenario Two: Virtual Countries
Feasibility
Desirability
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 7: The Interesting Organizations Project - Digitalization of the 21st Century Firm
External Forces and Internal Dimensions of Organization
Schneider National
From Basic Trucking to Solving Customers Problems
Culture and Values Support Digitalization
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Part III: What Can You do About It?
Chapter 8: The Delta Model - Adaptive Management for a Changing World
The Triangle: Three Strategic Options
Understanding the Strategic Positions
Economic Perspectives of the Strategic Positions
The Bonding Continuum
Adaptive Processes to Link Strategy with Execution
Alignment of Adaptive Processes with Strategy
Priorities of Each Adaptive Process
Feedback
Granular Segmentation
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Clockspeed-based Strategies for Supply Chain Design
Supply Chain Structural Dynamics Along the Double Helix
Clockspeed Drivers and Outsourcing for Speed
Implementation: Three-Dimensional Concurrent Engineering
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 10: Tools for Inventing Organizations - Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes
The Key Intellectual Challenge: How to Represent Organizational Processes?
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 11: Inventing Organizations with the Process Handbook - Excerpts from a Learning History
Background on the 21st Century Initiative Special Project
Leading Actors
Bagging Insights: An Exciting Beginning
A New Focus for Consulting
From Insights to Understanding: Making the Miracle Visible
Conclusion: The Art and Science of Change
Acknowledgments
Note
References
Chapter 12: An Improvisational Model for Change Management - The Case of Groupware Technologies
An Improvisational Model for Managing Change
The Case of Zeta
Zeta s Change Model
Enabling Conditions
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 13: The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams
Five Components That Make X-Teams Successful
Supporting X-Teams
Is the X-Team for Your Company?
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 14: Eight Imperatives for the New IT Organization
Business Change
Technology Change
Eight Imperatives for IT
The New Core IT Activities
Line Leadership
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Part IV: What do You Want in the First Place?
Chapter 15: What Do We Really Want? A Manifesto for the Organizations of the 21st Century
What Isn t Working?
What Do We Really Want?
Imagining New Possibilities
What Can We Do?
Notes
References
Chapter 16: Building a New Social Contract at Work - A Call to Action
The Social Contract As a Metaphor
Starting Points: A Holistic View of Work and Its Role in Society
The New Employment Institutions
A Multiple-Stakeholder View of Firms
Next Generation Unions 7 and Professional Associations
Labor Market Intermediaries and Community Organizations
Government As a Catalyst for Innovation and Flexibility
The Need for Leadership
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 17: Retreat of the Firm and the Rise of Guilds - The Employment Relationship in an Age of Virtual Business
New Kinds of Companies, New Ways of Working
How We Got Here: Rise and Fall of the Traditional Employment Contract
Flexible Employment Arrangements for Streamlined Organizations
The Challenge Posed by the New Employment Relationship
The Traditional Approaches - and Their Shortcomings
Some Recent Experiments
Guilds - Doing What the Employer Used to Do... But Outside the Firm
Occupationally Based Groups
Regionally Based Organizations
What May Emerge - Guilds as Personalized External HR Department
Challenges Ahead
Conclusion: A Possible Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 18: Unexpected Connections - Considering Employees Personal Lives Can Revitalize Your Business
One Company s Experiences
How to Capture the Benefits of Connection: A Dual Agenda
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 19: Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution
Corporate Heretics
Between Two Stories
Naturalism: Biomimicry and the Logic of Natural Systems
Humanism: The Logic of Learning
A New Business Logic
The Logic of Revolutions
Acknowledgments
Additional Resources
Notes
References
Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 20: Prospects for the New Century
List of Contributors
Index
Index_B
Index_C
Index_D
Index_E
Index_F
Index_G
Index_H
Index_I
Index_J
Index_K
Index_L
Index_M
Index_N
Index_O
Index_P
Index_Q
Index_R
Index_S
Index_T
Index_U
Index_V
Index_W
Index_X
Index_Y
Index_Z
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars
Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
ISBN: 026263273X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 214
BUY ON AMAZON
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Software Process Maturity Assessment and Software Project Assessment
Concluding Remarks
Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Script Host
Introduction
Shell Operations
Logon Scripts and Scheduling
Regular Expressions
Application Automation
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design
Who this book is for
Service-orientation and contemporary SOA
Benefits of a business-centric SOA
Service design guidelines
Fundamental WS-* Extensions
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Voice of the Customer (VOC)
Descriptive Statistics and Data Displays
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Java Concurrency in Practice
Building an Efficient, Scalable Result Cache
Handling Abnormal Thread Termination
Performance and Scalability
Fairness
Explicit Condition Objects
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