Organizations can hire consultants and purchase expensive training programmes - but improvement must still be generated from within. "The Reengineering Alternative" explains how organizations can develop effective improvement plans based upon their unique strengths and corporate objectives. This book should prove valuable to managers who recognize the need for organizational change, but either haven't found an appropriate improvement programme, or can't fit an outside programme into the budget. The book provides a questionnaire readers can use to determine causes of conflict and sources of competitive strength. It demonstrates effective management and helps readers make the most cost-effective decisions concerning change and improvement within their organization.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Browse our Bookshelf Favorites store for big savings on popular fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and more. |
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images? |
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has come highly recommended by colleagues practicing organizational change and Agile software development transformations. A must read to understand your current company culture, and create a strategy for successful change.
I would have purchased if there was a Kindle version - now I'll wait for a used book.
I would have purchased if there was a Kindle version - now I'll wait for a used book.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Dan Mezick
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a useful book that pulls together a set of ideas in one model of organizational culture. The book asserts that eventually, all organizational cultures end up more or less fitting into 4 specific categories: Control culture, Competency culture, Collaboration culture, and Cultivation culture. The book provides ABC guidance on how to assess the culture of your company and once complete, use that assessment to play to your strengths while avoiding weaknesses.
This is an interesting book and the framework is useful as an assessment tool. The book's thesis is grounded in actual consulting with real organizations, making the assertions the book makes believable.
That said, the book does tend to promote the idea that no one cultural idea for your organization is better than any other idea. This is probably misguided. The pace of change is demanding that organizations be more and more adaptive. This is true even for the insurance industry, where Schneider did most of his consulting prior to writing this book. The pace of change has accelerated since the early 1990's. It is clear that cultures which value continuous learning are more far more useful and valid than cultures that do not. The word 'learning' does not appear in the index. A quick examination of the pages in this short book reveals that the essential topic of organizational learning is not addressed.
In my view, organizational cultures that are designed to learn fast are clearly superior to those who do not. This book stops short of stating this and instead tends to support the idea that all organizational types are of equal value. "Learning cultures" are superior to others precisely because they can more readily identify and immediately adapt to change. I cover this subject extensively in my own book, THE CULTURE GAME which published in May of 2012.
All in all, this is an important book and one that deserves a careful examination if you are embarking on culture change initiatives in your organization. Recommended.
This is an interesting book and the framework is useful as an assessment tool. The book's thesis is grounded in actual consulting with real organizations, making the assertions the book makes believable.
That said, the book does tend to promote the idea that no one cultural idea for your organization is better than any other idea. This is probably misguided. The pace of change is demanding that organizations be more and more adaptive. This is true even for the insurance industry, where Schneider did most of his consulting prior to writing this book. The pace of change has accelerated since the early 1990's. It is clear that cultures which value continuous learning are more far more useful and valid than cultures that do not. The word 'learning' does not appear in the index. A quick examination of the pages in this short book reveals that the essential topic of organizational learning is not addressed.
In my view, organizational cultures that are designed to learn fast are clearly superior to those who do not. This book stops short of stating this and instead tends to support the idea that all organizational types are of equal value. "Learning cultures" are superior to others precisely because they can more readily identify and immediately adapt to change. I cover this subject extensively in my own book, THE CULTURE GAME which published in May of 2012.
All in all, this is an important book and one that deserves a careful examination if you are embarking on culture change initiatives in your organization. Recommended.
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 100
books:
See all 100 books this book cites
6
books
cite this book:
See all 6 books citing this book
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters on 4 pages
- Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition by Abraham H. Maslow on 4 pages
- Organizational Culture by Peter J. Frost on 4 pages
- Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) by C. G. Jung on page 125, page 146, and Back Matter
- Corporate Culture and Organizational Effectiveness (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment and Change) by Daniel Denison on page 43, page 148, and Back Matter
See all 100 books this book cites
- Working Virtually: Managing People for Successful Virtual Teams and Organizations by Trina Hoefling on page 23, and page 25
- Developing Organisational Consultancy by Andraea Dawson-Shepherd in Front Matter, and page 266
- Facilitating With Ease! A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM by Ingrid Bens in Back Matter
- Reengineering in Action: The Quest for World-Class Excellence by Chan Meng Khoong on page 328
- Liberating the Corporate Soul : Building a Visionary Organization by Richard Barrett on page 100
See all 6 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Management
- Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Production & Operations
- Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Systems & Planning
- Books > Business & Investing > Organizational Behavior > Workplace
- Books > Education & Reference
