Book description
What's the best way to drive fundamental, transformative change within your organization? Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. It's called idealized design, and -- as executives in hundreds of organizations will testify -- it's one of the most powerful techniques you'll ever use. Authored by its legendary creator, Wharton Professor Emeritus Russell Ackoff, and leading practitioner Jason Magidson, Idealized Design covers every facet of this breakthrough methodology. You'll learn the fundamental differences between idealized design and traditional process re-engineering, and understand how idealized design eliminates many conventional obstacles to change. Start-to-finish techniques and examples drawn from hundreds of companies, non-profits, and government organizations will show you how to use idealized design to solve your own crisis of tomorrow...today.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: The Birth of an Idea
- I. Idealized Design: The Basics
- II. Idealized Design: Applications—The Process in Action
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III. Idealized Design: No Limit—Applications to World Challenges
- 10. The Urban Challenge: An Urban Car A Redesign of Paris and Beyond
- 11. The Health-Care Challenge: A National Health-Care System A Health-Care Mall
- 12. The Challenges to Government: A National Elections System A New United Nations A Response to Terrorism
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IV. Complete Idealized Designs
- 13. Energetics (Business Enterprise)
- 14. Academy of Vocal Arts (Not-for-Profit)
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15. White House Communications Agency (Government)
- Introduction
- Meet WHCA
- Setting the Stage
- Enter the Change Agent
- Understanding the Culture
- Key Cultural Influences
- Getting Started
- Changing the System
- Organizational Redesign
- Board Structure and Participation
- Results
- Other Changes
- Managing Fear
- Role of Leader
- Holding the Gains
- Further Study
- Note
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References
- Endnotes
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Annotated Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Idealized Design: Creating an Organization’s Future
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2006
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780131963634
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