Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond OrganizationsAdaptive Enterprise outlines the new sense-and-respond business model that helps companies anticipate, adapt, and respond to continually changing customer needs. Author Stephan Haeckel shows how large, complex organizations can adapt in a systematic way to the unpredictable demands of rapid, relentless change--if the organization is designed and managed as an adaptive system. In fact, the only kind of strategy that makes sense in the face of change is a strategy to become adaptive. Haeckel maps out a step-by-step plan that firms can use to transform themselves into a new type of organization, one where change is not a problem to be solved but rather a source of energy, growth, and value. Adaptive Enterprise is both a new way of thinking about business and a prescription for leadership of post-industrial organizations. It is, as Adrian Slywotsky says in his foreword, "a book that will influence the influencers of business thought." |
What people are saying - Write a review
Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified
User Review - Flag as inappropriate
Here are thirteen reviews from the amazon.com posting
http://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Enterprise-Creating-Sense-And-Respond-Organizations/product-reviews/0875848745/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
5 Star = 10
4 Star = 4
3 Star = 3
2 Star = 0
1 Star = 1
Contents
| 1 | |
Unpredictability The Only Sure Thing | 23 |
Strategy Past and Future | 37 |
The SenseandRespond Alternative | 51 |
Adaptiveness Finding Meaning in Apparent Noise | 75 |
The Role of Leadership in SenseandRespond Organisations | 93 |
Building Organisational Context | 113 |
Coordination Keeping Track of Who Owes What to Whom | 141 |
Creating the Modular Organisation | 207 |
Collaborative DecisionMaking in Adaptive Enterprises | 225 |
Putting the Commitment Management Protocol to Work | 243 |
Notes | 249 |
Acknowledgments | 265 |
Glossary | 273 |
Bibliography | 277 |
| 285 | |
Managing by Wire | 163 |
Managing the Transformation A Case Study | 173 |
Changing the Corporate DNA | 191 |
About the Author | |
Other editions - View all
Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-and-respond Organizations Stephan H. Haeckel No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
ability accountable achieve actions activities adaptive alternative approach become behavior Benefits called carry chapter clients coherent commitment communications complex concept consistent context continue coordination corporate cost course create decision-making decisions defined described developed economy effective efficient emergent employees enterprise environment essential establish example executives exists experience firms function future given governing principles high-level business design idea identify important improve increasing individual industry Institute integrated interpret investment issues knowledge lead leaders leadership learning make-and-sell meaning ment modular needs negotiation offers operations organizational organizations outcomes performance possible predict primary problem profit protocol reason requests response result Review roles sense sense-and-respond sense-and-respond organizations shared signals specific statement strategy structure success things thinking tion transformation understanding units unpredictable Westpac
Popular passages
Page 1 - I hold that that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Page 2 - Uncertainty — in the economy, society, politics — has become so great as to render futile, if not counterproductive, the kind of planning most companies still practice: forecasting based on probabilities.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations |
| Author | Stephan H. Haeckel |
| Publisher | Harvard Business Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1422171787, 9781422171783 |
| Length | 295 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Leadership |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |