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We are in an era of high volatility and uncertain outcomes, driven by accelerating technologies, shortened product cycles, fast-changing information, an increasingly mobile workforce, more demanding customers, complex financial markets, ad-hoc public policies, and many other factors that add layers of uncertainty to all future possibilities. While most believe that good management requires better prediction of the future and better planning, Gill Eapen instead contends that the best way to manage effectively in an uncertain world is through the conscious application of flexibility an ability to absorb constantly shifting variables and adapt quickly.

Flexibility: Flexible Companies for the Uncertain World explores ways in which organizations can systematically enhance their ability to survive and succeed without the guarantees that come with certainty. In these pages, Eapen details:

  • Specific attributes of status-quo organizations t

    Trade Review

    With Flexibility, Gill Eapen masters the application of smart business strategy to a world of unknown circumstances. For your company or your career, Flexibility is a worthwhile guide to problem solving and decisiveness amid the uncertainty.
    —Martin Mackay, President, PharmaTherapeutics Research and Development

    In chess, control of the centerboard gains flexibility and advantage. Like the grandmaster chess player, Gill Eapen takes an instinctive notion and develops it logically and for purpose.
    —Ronald W. Sellers, Chairman and CEO, Atlantic Asset Management, LLC

    Gill has found a way to give everyone better decision-making insights to solve complex business and social challenges.
    — George Bickerstaff, Chairman and CEO, GWB Capital LLC



    Table of Contents

    Uncertainty and Flexibility. Components of an Enterprise - Structure, System and Strategy. History and Future of Organizational Structures. Changing Systems in an Enterprise. Dynamic Strategy. Diagnosis of an Enterprise - Tell Tale Symptoms. Surviving Today. Succeeding in the Future. Future Designs of Enterprises. Conclusions.

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/12/2009
      ISBN13: 9781439816325, 978-1439816325
      ISBN10: 1439816328

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      We are in an era of high volatility and uncertain outcomes, driven by accelerating technologies, shortened product cycles, fast-changing information, an increasingly mobile workforce, more demanding customers, complex financial markets, ad-hoc public policies, and many other factors that add layers of uncertainty to all future possibilities. While most believe that good management requires better prediction of the future and better planning, Gill Eapen instead contends that the best way to manage effectively in an uncertain world is through the conscious application of flexibility an ability to absorb constantly shifting variables and adapt quickly.

      Flexibility: Flexible Companies for the Uncertain World explores ways in which organizations can systematically enhance their ability to survive and succeed without the guarantees that come with certainty. In these pages, Eapen details:

      • Specific attributes of status-quo organizations t

        Trade Review

        With Flexibility, Gill Eapen masters the application of smart business strategy to a world of unknown circumstances. For your company or your career, Flexibility is a worthwhile guide to problem solving and decisiveness amid the uncertainty.
        —Martin Mackay, President, PharmaTherapeutics Research and Development

        In chess, control of the centerboard gains flexibility and advantage. Like the grandmaster chess player, Gill Eapen takes an instinctive notion and develops it logically and for purpose.
        —Ronald W. Sellers, Chairman and CEO, Atlantic Asset Management, LLC

        Gill has found a way to give everyone better decision-making insights to solve complex business and social challenges.
        — George Bickerstaff, Chairman and CEO, GWB Capital LLC



        Table of Contents

        Uncertainty and Flexibility. Components of an Enterprise - Structure, System and Strategy. History and Future of Organizational Structures. Changing Systems in an Enterprise. Dynamic Strategy. Diagnosis of an Enterprise - Tell Tale Symptoms. Surviving Today. Succeeding in the Future. Future Designs of Enterprises. Conclusions.

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