Corporate agility : a revolutionary new model for competing in a flat world / Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware, Cory Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grantham, Charles E.

Contributor:

Ware, James P.

Williamson, Cory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Organizational change.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : AMACOM-American Management Association, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thomas Friedman has the business world buzzing about the flat world that is the new business landscape. Today's companies need radically different strategies in order to compete and win. "Corporate Agility" provides the answer. Charles Grantham and Jim Ware are founders of the Work Design Collaborative, a renowned thinktank that helps companies achieve new levels of workforce productivity. Some of their high-profile members include Accenture, Agilent Technologies, IBM Global Services, Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard and Spherion Corporation. The strategies in this book are forward-thinking and field-tested - the result of a 5-year research project conducted by the Work Design Collaborative.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""More Corporate Agility, Less Corporate Real Estate""; ""The Three Major Business Challenges: Costs, Labor, and Innovation""; ""Reducing Fixed Operating Costs""; ""Attracting and Retaining Human Talent""; ""Innovation and Survival""; ""The Virtual Workforce""; ""Offices Without Walls""; ""The Well-Designed Workplace""; ""Collaborative Strategic Management""; ""Achieving Corporate Agility""; ""AFTERWORD""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-12669-1

9786611126698

0-8144-0067-1