Designing Effective Organizations: How to Create Structured Networks
Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell
John Wiley & Sons, 2002
Winner of the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2002

Have you ever struggled to make decisions in organizations where responsibilities are not sufficeintly clear?
Have you labored in hierarchical structures where senior managers slow down decisons, but add no value?
Have you wondered why the organization design so often makes strategies hard to implement? Designing Effective Organisations offers practical help to managers who face these difficulties.

This book provides a rigorous approach to the complex issue of organization design. Drawing on a wide range of company examples and a wealth of personal experience, the authors have produced an innovative new framework for assessing design options.

Using nine tests, and new and more precise terms to convey organizational roles, Goold and Campbell provide managers with the tools needed to create well designed organizatons. They emphasize the value of decentralized network—like organizations, but argue for sufficient structure to make them work well.

Although organizational design decisions will never be easy, managers who use the processes outlined in this book are much more likely to arrive at sound choices and increase the overall competitive success of their companies.

If you have always put organizational design in the 'to difficult' box, or struggled to find a better way to restructure your organization, this is the book for you.

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