Guide to Organisation Design: Creating high-performing and adaptable enterprises

by Naomi Stanford

Business failure is not limited to start ups. In America alone between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups and over 5.7 million business shut-downs.

Risk of failure can be greatly reduced through effective organisational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances.  Organisation design is a straightforward business process but curiously managers rarely talk about it and even more rarely take steps to consciously design or redesign their business for success. This new Economist guide explores the five principles of effective organisation design, which are that it must

Genres: Management, Business, Nonfiction

343 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2007

Reviews

[Alok Mishra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Naomi has some serious tips for her readers. For young entrepreneurs, there is a lot to learn and understand. For Experienced ones, the book has experiences to share and assumptions to consider.

[Edikan Udoh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exhaustively detailed.
It's the type of book you retain as a reference tool.

[Daniel Wikberg · Rating 1 out of 5]

Completely waste of time. A collection of theoretical and overly academic models.