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Thousands of established businesses fail every year because of the way they are organised, or re-organised. Business survival can depend not only on whether its structures and reporting lines meet the needs of the market, but also whether they can adapt in the face of a rapidly changing business environment. Yet managers seldom talk coherently about structuring or restructuring their operations, let alone take a systematic approach to this vital issue. Too often, companies are restructured for the wrong reasons - for example, because a new CEO wants to make an impact, or to work around a new IT system. This revised and updated Economist Guide shows how leaders should think about and implement the design of a company, using five easy-to-use guiding principles: - Design a company around its strategy and the operating context, not for ulterior or non-business reasons; - Think holistically - don't restructure just one division without taking into account other operations; - Consider future markets, customers and trends, not just what works best now; - Invest time and resources: - a redesign can be complicated to implement and must be done without disrupting daily activities; and - Go back to the basics of how the company operates and its market position; this is not a repair job to fix a short-term problem.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Business & management Business strategy

• Full title: Economist Guide to Organisation Design 2nd edition
• Subtitle: Creating high-performing and adaptable enterprises
• Author: Naomi Stanford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781781253106
• ISBN: 1781253102
• ID: 05337175
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Weight: 434 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. February 2015

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