How to Survive Organizational Revolution

People face a bewildering choice ofnew organizational design options. Neworganizational forms are sweeping acrossbusiness, now that information technologyenables better communication, both internallyand across organizational boundaries. Thisbook helps managers to navigate the neworganizational landscape, by providing a conciseand practical overview of forms like holacracy,the Spotify-model, platform organizations,multidimensional organizing and ecosystems. Itdiscusses these forms and provides a user guide,showing when they are effective and when toavoid them.Short insightful excursions explain how theorganizational revolution affects issues likehuman resource management, the changing roleof middle management, planning and controland self-organization. Finally, the book guidesyou through the question how to design neworganizational forms and how to implementthem. Practical examples and enlightening casestudies show the struggles and successes youface in working in this new environment.Self-organized, dynamic and externally orientedstructures replace hierarchical, predictable andinternally oriented structures. The business unitand the matrix that dominated the twentiethcentury are making way for new forms oforganizing. This book is the first completeoverview of new organizational forms in theinformation economy. It is an indispensableguide to profit from the opportunities neworganizational forms present.- highly practical and concise comparison oforganizational forms- brings you up to speed in no time- quick insight into what is going on in the field- choose the best organization strategy