Adaptive enterprise : creating and leading sense-and-respond organizations / Stephan H. Haeckel ; foreword by Adrian J. Slywotzky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haeckel, Stephan H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Management.

Organizational change.

New business enterprises--Management.

New business enterprises.

Management.

Corporate culture.

management.

Physical Description:

xx, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard Business School Press, ©1999.

Summary:

In Adaptive Enterprise, Haeckel updates the concept of the corporation for the Information Age with a radical and comprehensive rethinking of organizational strategy, structure, and leadership. He outlines the new sense-and-respond business model that is helping companies systematically cope with the unexpected. It maps out, with examples and illustrations, a step-by-step plan that companies can use to transform themselves into a new type of organization - one in which change is not a problem to be solved, but rather an indispensable source of energy, growth, and value.

Contents:

Foreword / Adrian J. Slywotzky

The Premise and Promise of Sense-and-Respond

Unpredictability: The Only Sure Thing

Strategy: Past and Future

The Sense-and-Respond Alternative

Adaptiveness: Finding Meaning in Apparent Noise

The Role of Leadership in Sense-and-Respond Organizations

Building Organizational Context

Coordination: Keeping Track of Who Owes What to Whom

Managing by Wire

Managing the Transformation: A Case Study

Changing the Corporate DNA

Creating the Modular Organization / Michael Shank

Collaborative Decision-Making in Adaptive Enterprises / Michael Kusnic, Daniel Owen

Putting the Commitment Management Protocol to Work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.

ISBN:

0875848745

9780875848747

OCLC:

40417611