How to Survive the Organizational Revolution: A Guide to Agile Contemporary Operating Models, Platforms and Ecosystems

People face a bewildering choice of
new organizational design options. New
organizational forms are sweeping across
business, now that information technology
enables better communication, both internally
and across organizational boundaries. This
book helps managers to navigate the new
organizational landscape, by providing a concise
and practical overview of forms like holacracy,
the Spotify-model, platform organizations,
multidimensional organizing and ecosystems. It
discusses these forms and provides a user guide,
showing when they are effective and when to
avoid them.
Short insightful excursions explain how the
organizational revolution affects issues like
human resource management, the changing role
of middle management, planning and control
and self-organization. Finally, the book guides
you through the question how to design new
organizational forms and how to implement
them. Practical examples and enlightening case
studies show the struggles and successes you
face in working in this new environment.
Self-organized, dynamic and externally oriented
structures replace hierarchical, predictable and
internally oriented structures. The business unit
and the matrix that dominated the twentieth
century are making way for new forms of
organizing. This book is the first complete
overview of new organizational forms in the
information economy. It is an indispensable
guide to profit from the opportunities new
organizational forms present.
. highly practical and concise comparison of
organizational forms
. brings you up to speed in no time
. quick insight into what is going on in the field
. choose the best organization strategy