The Idea in Brief Big companies have always been complex. But to cope with new challenges such as globalization, they've increased their complexity--with proliferating products, tangled reporting relationships, and duplicated processes. They've become unwieldy, ungovernable, and...
By Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas McGraw Hill, 2002 326 pages List Price: $29.95 ISBN: 0-07-138416-2 AS CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch earned a stellar reputation for pruning the company's bureaucracy and involving employees at all levels in organizational planning. In...
Editor's note: Reprinted with publisher's permission from The GE Work-Out by Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, Ron Ashkenas, and Debbie Burke. CopyrightC 2002 by Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, Ron Ashkenas, and Debbie Burke. Reprinted by permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. "WORK-OUT DOES NOT END WHEN THE EVENT...
In "HRs Role in Mergers and Acquisitions" October, Ruth N. Bramson included textual information and two charts Which Culture Is Desired and Major Stages of Integration that should have been attributed to Suzanne Francis and Ron Ashkenas, managing partners at Robert H. Schaffer & Associates, Stamford, Connecticut; info@rhsa.com...
Competitiveness is attained if organizations maintain their sensitiveness to changes in customer needs. Key to being sensitive to such changes is the ability of an organization to loosen its vertical, horizontal, geographic and external boundary constraints. Loosening of boundary constraints initially involves determination of each boundary's permeability. In the...
I Successful organizations are operating in many different ways today: Motorola reduced its product development cycle by years by replacing traditional functional processes with cross-functional teams made up of engineers, marketers, manufacturing experts, financial analysts, and others. General Electric, with more than 200,000 employees, flattened its hierarchy...
Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr. The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure. New York. Jossey-Bass. 1995. pp. 363. $28.50. Several years ago when at the height of his power and prestige, Drexel Burnham junk bond king Mike Milken hosted a dinner, after which the...
My first exposure to U.S. industry came at U.S. when I landed a job on a Big Three auto assembly line. The lessons I learned about the limitations of artificial boundaries carried over into my professional years as I struggled to build teams in the workplace. And...
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