Corporate DNA: Learning from Life

ISBN-13: 9781138175501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str.

Ken Baskin

Opis

Corporate DNA explores what happens when managers think about and run their companies as if they were living things. An organic model is at the heart of the transformation of companies like AT&T and EDS, working to redesign the bureaucracies that they were built upon. This book addresses the frustrations felt among corporations by focusing on the role of the organizational models in the transformation process. The book's key perception is that the choice of a mechanical or organic model results in an organizations developing either mechanical or organic structures. Those structures, in turn, lead to certain types of behavior. Corporate DNA provides tools with which managers can replace their old mechanical models with organic ones. Readers will discover how living things use information to create work; how they learn, develop, and govern themselves; and how prototype organic corporations such as 3M and Federal Express apply organic models to their operations.Ken Baskin, Ph.D., is a consultant on communicating quality and culture change. In addition to his own public relations business, he has worked for the US Department of Energy, the New Jersey Department of Education, and Bell Atlantic, including speech writing for CEO Ray Smith. Ken leads workshops on ]Creating Competitive Advantage in a Market Ecology] and ]Using the Principles of DNA for Problem Solving, ] among others.

Spis treści

Market Ecologies * Coevolution in a Market Ecology * The Dynamics of Chaotic Markets: How Market Ecologies Form * Creating Competitive Advantage in Market Ecologies * The Organic Corporation * Corporate Identity: The Image in the Mirror * Corporate DNA: A Memory of Things to Come * Corporate Nervous System: In Conversation with the World * Organic Community Structure: Holon for a Rough Ride * Senior Management as Corporate Central Nervous System * Organic Transformation * You Can't Engineer a Butterfly: Mechanical Change Vs. Organic Transformation * Components of the Bell Atlantic Way: A Tale of Mechanical Change * Evolving a Learning Organization: Organic Transformation at Mercedes-Benz Credit Corporation * A Deengineer's Handbook

O autorze

Ken Baskin