EBOOK Re-Creating the Corporation:A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century

Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North        America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970        Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark        book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers, Russell L. Ackoff, delivers        this indispensable guide for those hoping to beat these odds--and to better navigate        the corporate challenges of the next millennium.While most business and management        schools continue to teach the functions of a corporation separately--production,        marketing, finance, personnel--the reality is that for a corporation to endure each        division must work with the others to create an effective system. Re-Creating the        Corporation is Ackoff's masterful blueprint for understanding and creating these        model corporate systems. In four comprehensive sections--Background, Process,        Designs, and Change--Ackoff lays out in clear concise prose the five organizational        goals of successful corporate systems: plan effectively, learn and adapt rapidly,        democratize, introduce internal market economies, and employ a flexible structure        that will minimize the need for future restructuring. And through a deft mix of        practical and theoretical examples drawn from a wide range of applications in a wide        range of firms, this book ultimately guides executives to the system best suited to        meet their organizational goals.Re-Creating the Corporation, which is the        culmination of a lifetime of innovative and insightful business thought from one of        the business world's premier thinkers, is essential reading for those attempting to        navigate the rapidly changing economic environment of the next millennium.