Structural Cybernetics: An Overview : how to Build Flexible, Entrepreneurial Organizational Structures

Political in-fighting, limited teamwork, lack of customer focus, weak strategic alignment, slow pace of innovation, fragmentation & disintegration, a bureaucratic rather than entrepreneurial culture, poor morale & too much management time spent resolving internal problems...Many common performance problems trace their root cause to the design of an organization's structure. Organizational structure is a science, not a matter of personalities & politics, fads & intuition. There are twelve fundamental building blocks of structure present in any organization. The way these are combined determines the health & performance of the organization. And the mechanisms of teamwork determine whether or not the organizational design actually works. STRUCTURAL CYBERNETICS is a comprehensive treatment of the issues of organizational design. This brief & readable overview presents the basics of organizational theory, clear definitions of the building blocks of structure, practical principles for designing organization charts & an approach to high-performance teamwork that replaces bureaucracy with a "network" organization. "Well written, pithy & easily understood..."--CIO Canada Magazine.