"A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been …
Preface -- Introduction -- The social revolution -- Open communication -- Open control -- Openness controls -- Open culture -- A conversation about bureaucracy -- Conversational spaces -- The conversational firm : implications for theory -- The future of the conversational firm …
"A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been …
This book studies the intertwined processes of information systems implementation and organisational change within the current trend of economic globalisation.
"It is often assumed that the impact and implementation of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) will or should be the same in all situations with little regard to the particular social or cultural context. Drawing on experience and research in different societies (E…
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Light the Fuse -- Chapter 1 Tinderbox: Hazardous Unwritten Rules -- Who We Are -- Why Best Practices Persist -- Ossification of Playbooks -- Playbooks Produce Orthodoxy -- The Plan -- Chapter 2 Spark: Acceleration…
"Learn about Dr. Deming's system of Profound Knowledge - the knowledge needed for transformation to a new style of management; understand how to create product and service to achieve continual growth, innovation, and improved market position; explore the reasons to abolish perfo…
"A must-read in the wake of COVID-19, this book unpacks the nature of resilient organizations and how they prepare for unpredictable, complex, and profound change. Every organization seeks to build resilience in an increasingly VUCA world, but there is a lot of noise and very li…
All change -- Knowing when the winds are coming -- All hands on deck -- Navigating a new route -- Mastering mutinies -- Learning to tack -- Living with turbulence -- The leading turbulent times checklist.
