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"This Third Edition of the bestselling book on organization design adds 50% new content to result in the most complete book on organization design currently available. Additions and updates encompass business unit organization, enterprise organization design, standard portfolio strategy, standard functional, divisional, and holding company structures, value-adding conglomerates, and designing global organizations. This new coverage makes this reference, a mainstay both for business education and working professionals, better than ever"--
List of contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Preface xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. The Star Model 15
3. Single-Business Strategy and Functional Organization 57
4. Designing the Lateral Organization 89
5. Types of Single-Business Strategy 107
6. The Reconfigurable Functional Organization 131
7. Designing the Network Organization 149
8. Multibusiness Strategy and Organization 185
9. The Mixed Model 205
10. Adding Value 217
11. The Value-Adding Conglomerates 235
12. Synergy Portfolio Strategies 255
13. Organizational Design Challenges and Opportunities Resulting from Big Data 285
Bibliography 301
About the Author 307
Index 309
About the author
JAY R. GALBRAITH is president and founder of Galbraith Management Consultants, an international consulting firm that specializes in solving strategy and organizational design challenges across corporate, business unit, and international levels. He is also an affiliated research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and professor emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Summary
This Third Edition of the groundbreaking book Designing Organizations offers a guide to the process of creating and managing an organization (no matter how complex) that will be positioned to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands and have the ability to achieve unique competitive advantage.
