Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swim
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The most difficult questions facing organizations today do not have scientifically or mathematically provable solutions. Many answers that do exist depend upon time and circumstance.
Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swim tackles a very difficult dilemma: how do even highly respected organizations maintain their vaunted excellence, accommodate the new world of global communications, transportation, economics and multinational security, and still survive against stiff competition already in place? As they are finding out, depending upon the circumstances, the demands of excellence on the one hand, and of change on the other, can be cruelly irreconcilable.This book does not just describe business strengths and weaknesses. First, it identifies potential weaknesses, then offers guidelines and insights to address them. Its approach is architectural and heuristic. Second, this book is about maintaining success in a dynamic world, not about achieving it in a static one; few are clear on what to do and not to do in the face of major change. Systems Architecting of Organizations: Why Eagles Can't Swim helps professionals gain new perspectives when reviewing their own organizations and to see problems and opportunities previously not apparent. Features
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0849381401
ISBN13:9780849381409
Release Date:July 1999
Publisher:Routledge
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Economics Engineering Entrepreneurship Industrial Engineering Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Leadership Management Management & Leadership Management Science Mechanical Motivational Organizational Change Small Business & Entrepreneurship Total Quality ManagementCustomer Reviews
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Author comments on the motivations for writing the book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Systems architecting has been shown in two earlier books not only to exist but to be key to successful systems and product lines. Fellow executives asked for a comparable book addressing organizations as systems, which they clearly are, and especially for applicable insights for dealing with the nonquantifiable issues confronting both executives and professionals in a drastically changed international and technological world. Good organizations were failing, disappearing, being merged, consolidating or expanding, succeeding or failing -- for reasons they couldn't fathom. The book shows what,why, how, and when, folowed by insights on how to deal with them. It represents the technical management experience of seven, now retired, chief executives representing 15 major organizations, public and private, military and commercial. To the author's, publisher's and associates' knowledge it is as unprecedented as the dilemmas now faced by executives and professionals today.
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