- Includes examples from global companies going through transformation as well as high growth challengers
- Outlines how organization design can help mature companies better embrace and connect digital capabilities, and how fast-growth companies can mature and scale a culture that was effective for a start-up but is now facing new competition
- Conveys contemporary concepts around organization design in practical, accessible language
Networked, Scaled, and Agile
A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations
Enable your employees to work laterally and make faster, better decisions by designing an organization that can respond to the business challenges of balancing global integration with local relevance and digital transformation across the company.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781789667790
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 235x155
200 pages
About the book
While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable.
Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips.
Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.
About the authors
Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, and Michele DiMartino are organization design practitioners that consult to senior executives in companies around the world and live in New York, NY, Turnbull, CT and St. Petersburg, FL respectively. They are Managing Directors at Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, which is part of Accenture. Kates Kesler is recognized as one of the leading organization design firms and their methodology has become the global standard. The firm has been named by Forbes as one of the best consulting firms annually since 2016.
Kates, Kesler and DiMartino have created something special. Their framework resists fads in favor of examining the core trade-offs in a business, its environment and through its lifecycle. I believe the concepts herein will survive the test of time.
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