Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
ISBN: 026263273X
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 214
Pages: 214
- 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
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 214
Pages: 214