Designing Effective Organizations by Michael Goold
Dealing with corporate level organization design, this book aims to help managers wrestling with multiple reporting dimensions, decentralization and cross unit co ordination.
"A few minutes spent thinking about one's own company, using the Goold and Campbell principles, can be very illuminatingAt its best, it will lead to real insights about how to reorganise the company. And at the very worst, you can have hours of fun applying the redundant hierarchy test to your colleagues." (Financial Times, 9 May 2002)
"...There are several ways to rebuild the country manager's role, as Michael Goold, of Britain's Ashridge Strategic Management Centre, argues in a new book...the main thing is to define the scope of the job clearly..." (Economist, 10 May 2002)
"...There are several ways to rebuild the country manager's role, as Michael Goold, of Britain's Ashridge Strategic Management Centre, argues in a new book...the main thing is to define the scope of the job clearly..." (Economist, 10 May 2002)
Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell are directors of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre in London and are acknowledged as leading thinkers on issues of corporate strategy and organization.
The Centre conducts research on large divisionalized companies. It is part of the Ashridge Trust, one of the world's top schools for executive education and development. Prior to establishing the Centre in 1987, both authors were Fellows at the Centre for Business Strategy at London Business School. They have written numerous books together including Strategies and Styles, Corporate Level Strategy and Synergy
Educated at Oxford and Stanford, Michael has extensive consulting as well as academic experience. He worked for a number of years with the Boston Consulting Group, becoming Vice President in 1979.
A Baker Scholar and Harkness Fellow from Harvard Business School, Andrew is currently a visiting professor at City University Business School. Previously he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company.
The Centre conducts research on large divisionalized companies. It is part of the Ashridge Trust, one of the world's top schools for executive education and development. Prior to establishing the Centre in 1987, both authors were Fellows at the Centre for Business Strategy at London Business School. They have written numerous books together including Strategies and Styles, Corporate Level Strategy and Synergy
Educated at Oxford and Stanford, Michael has extensive consulting as well as academic experience. He worked for a number of years with the Boston Consulting Group, becoming Vice President in 1979.
A Baker Scholar and Harkness Fellow from Harvard Business School, Andrew is currently a visiting professor at City University Business School. Previously he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780787960643 |
| ISBN 10 | 0787960640 |
| Title | Designing Effective Organizations |
| Author | Michael Goold |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Year published | 2002-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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