Describes the building blocks for creating tomorrow's organization and provides guidance on how to do it. The book covers the full range of business issues, from leadership and strategy to team development, compensation and technology.

Introduction: The Challenge of Challenge: Organizing for Competitive Advantage
Part One: Designing Competitive Organizations
1. Corporate Boards: Developing Effectiveness at the Top
2. Linking Customers and Products: Organizing for Product and Customer Focus
3. Designing the Networked Organization: Leveraging Size and Competencies
4. Structuring Global Organizations
Part Two: Enabling Competitive Performance
5. Organizing for Competencies and Capabilities: Bridging from Strategy to Effectiveness
6. The Changing Nature of Work: Managing the Impact of Information Technology
7. Employee Involvement, Reengineering, and TQM: Focusing on Capability Development
Part Three: Managing People in the Competitive Organization
8. The New Human Resources Management: Creating the Strategic Business Partnership
9. The New Learning Partnership: Sharing Responsibility for Building Competence
10. Executive Education: A Critical Lever for Organizational Change
11. Strategic Pay System Design
Part Four: Transforming the Organization
12. Teams and Technology: Extending the Power of Collaboration
13. Accelerating Organizational Learning During Transition
14. Catalizing Organizational Learning During Transition

In the face of mounting global competition and accelerated changes in technology, organizations are scrambling to develop business strategies, structures, and practices that will simultaneously keep them flexible and profitable. While many companies continue to pursue competitive advantage via the latest management fad, new research indicates that organizational design is now the real key to future success.
Based on eighteen years of in-depth research conducted with Fortune 1000 companies by the Center for Effective Organizations, Tomorrow's Organization is the first book to offer specific hands-on solutions and practical guidelines for creating organizations that can compete successfully in the twenty-first century. This follow-up to the highly acclaimed Organizing for the Future examines the challenges faced by companies as they reorganize to build more flexible and responsive organizations.
From issues of strategy and structure to leadership and capability development, the authors combine their vast research and consulting experience to offer the latest thinking and emerging practices today's most successful companies have incorporated to achieve strategic market advantage. And they outlines the flatter, more flexible and dynamic designs these companies have instituted. Tomorrow's Organization describes how to design for the new competitive environment--including customer product structures, design issues in networked organizations, and the structuring of global organizations. The contributors reveal which current practices are most likely to prove of lasting value and offer new ways to manage employees through competency-based pay, the new learning contract, and new approaches to executive development. They also provide guidelines for implementing technology as a critical underpinning of new organizational forms.
In an environment characterized by intense and dynamic competition, Tomorrow's Organization offers sound solutions to the challenges companies are facing in today's turbulent market place.

Introduction: The Challenge of Challenge: Organizing for Competitive Advantage. Part One: Designing Competitive Organizations. 1. Corporate Boards: Developing Effectiveness at the Top. 2. Linking Customers and Products: Organizing for Product and Customer Focus. 3. Designing the Networked Organization: Leveraging Size and Competencies. 4. Structuring Global Organizations. Part Two: Enabling Competitive Performance. 5. Organizing for Competencies and Capabilities: Bridging from Strategy to Effectiveness. 6. The Changing Nature of Work: Managing the Impact of Information Technology. 7. Employee Involvement, Reengineering, and TQM: Focusing on Capability Development. Part Three: Managing People in the Competitive Organization. 8. The New Human Resources Management: Creating the Strategic Business Partnership. 9. The New Learning Partnership: Sharing Responsibility for Building Competence. 10. Executive Education: A Critical Lever for Organizational Change. 11. Strategic Pay System Design. Part Four: Transforming the Organization. 12. Teams and Technology: ExtAnding the Power of Collaboration. 13. Accelerating Organizational Learning During Transition. 14. Catalizing Organizational Learning During Transition.

In the face of mounting global competition and accelerated changes in technology, organizations are scrambling to develop business strategies, structures, and practices that will simultaneously keep them flexible and profitable. While many companies continue to pursue competitive advantage via the latest management fad, new research indicates that organizational design is now the real key to future success.Based on eighteen years of in-depth research conducted with Fortune 1000 companies by the Center for Effective Organizations, Tomorrow's Organization is the first book to offer specific hands-on solutions and practical guidelines for creating organizations that can compete successfully in the twenty-first century. This follow-up to the highly acclaimed Organizing for the Future examines the challenges faced by companies as they reorganize to build more flexible and responsive organizations.From issues of strategy and structure to leadership and capability development, the authors combine their vast research and consulting experience to offer the latest thinking and emerging practices today's most successful companies have incorporated to achieve strategic market advantage. And they outlines the flatter, more flexible and dynamic designs these companies have instituted. Tomorrow's Organization describes how to design for the new competitive environment--including customer product structures, design issues in networked organizations, and the structuring of global organizations. The contributors reveal which current practices are most likely to prove of lasting value and offer new ways to manage employees through competency-based pay, the new learning contract, and new approaches to executive development. They also provide guidelines for implementing technology as a critical underpinning of new organizational forms.In an environment characterized by intense and dynamic competition, Tomorrow's Organization offers sound solutions to the challenges companies are