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A groundbreaking approach to successful performance improvement
Almost every executive in business today is faced with the challenge of improving performance, from incremental improvements to wholesale organizational change. Here, a world-renowned expert in organizational improvement asserts that most hard-won changes don't last for long, however, because of the inability to identify the root causes of the problem. How Organizations Work offers a clear, integrated solution to performance improvement via a new "Enterprise Model"-which takes into account all variables that influence performance. Alan Brache provides a comprehensive "physical exam" for checking an organization's vital signs and a 360-degree picture of how organizational dynamics can be harnessed to effect permanent improvements in performance.
Almost every executive in business today is faced with the challenge of improving performance, from incremental improvements to wholesale organizational change. Here, a world-renowned expert in organizational improvement asserts that most hard-won changes don't last for long, however, because of the inability to identify the root causes of the problem. How Organizations Work offers a clear, integrated solution to performance improvement via a new "Enterprise Model"-which takes into account all variables that influence performance. Alan Brache provides a comprehensive "physical exam" for checking an organization's vital signs and a 360-degree picture of how organizational dynamics can be harnessed to effect permanent improvements in performance.
About the Author
Alan Brache, Chief Technology Officer at Kepner-Tregoe, is responsible for creating product strategies, developing and upgrading consulting applications and skill development programs, ensuring delivery quality, writing on topical business is-sues, and developing internal consulting capability. He is one of the seven members of Kepner-Tregoe's Strategic Leadership Committee. From 1978 to 1986 Mr. Brache served in a number of positions with Kepner-Tregoe, including Product Manager, Technical Director of the Strategy Group, and Vice President of Product Development. He rejoined the company in 1997. During his ten-year absence from Kepner-Tregoe, Mr. Brache co-founded and was a part-ner in The Rummler-Brache Group, a consulting and training company that spe-cializes in helping companies implement their strategies through the design and management of business processes, organization structures, measurement systems, and human performance environments. Alan co-authored Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart, the book that launched the process improvement revolution and introduced the first set of tools for comprehensively managing an organization as an integrated system. He has published articles in 25 business magazines
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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A STRAIGHT-FORWARD BOOK ABOUT STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATION.,
By Gerry Stern "Stern's Management Review Online" (Culver City, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health (Hardcover)
Using a model of an enterprise, this book is a guide for exploring key aspects of organization, revealing how they are interrelated, and assessing them. The work focuses on: the external environment; leadership; strategy; business processes; goals and measurement; human capabilities; knowledge management; organizational structure; and culture. There are self-assessment questions throughout the book and numerous guidelines for diagnosing and designing a healthy organizational. Illustrations are used to flesh-out the diagnostic process. The work is a how-to guide; it is well organized, comprehensive, and highly useful. As a management consultant in organization analysis and design, as well as editor of Stern's Management Review, I seldom have encountered a book on this subject that is as straight-forward in its delivery of value as this work. Highly recommended.
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Finally, a book true to the words of the jacket...,
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This review is from: How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health (Hardcover)
How many times have we been disappointed in the content of a book after having been impressed by the slick words on the jacket? Well, prepare yourself! Sometimes things really are the way they are stated. No illusions. And this is just such the case with Alan Brache's new book "How Organizations Work." From his opening quotation of holistic unity from Chief Seattle on the jacket to his final inspiring words at the conclusion of the book, Brache ties all the elements of improving organization performance together in a scholarly, yet easy to read creation. His "Enterprise Model" for organizations, provides an impressive blueprint or x-ray for understanding the "complex network of interlocking factors" which contribute to How Organizations Work. Using a model analogous to human biology, Brache has provided a framework within which we might better understand our organizations and the various factors that influence performance. It is a great, easy read -- just in time for our serious summer reading list. Enjoy!
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Alan Brache Does It Again,
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This review is from: How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health (Hardcover)
It is refreshing to run across a business book that goes beyond generalizations. In How Organizations Work, Alan Brache deconstructs the business organization to reveal all the elements of which it is made up. He then examines each, methodically, raising questions that really enable an executive to take stock and stock planning for improvement.I worked with Alan many years ago, and I'm pleased to say that he is as lucid and logical as ever--and remains just as witty. His writing is crisp and to the point, and the real-life case studies that he intersperses ensure that the reader is never bored. Alan has done a fine job with a subject that, in other hands, could have been not only dull but also purely theoreti-cal. Instead, this is a book you can read once to get the big picture, then go back to again and again for practical day-to-day advice. Dale Corey, Business Writer & Researcher
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