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Designing the Innovating Organization

Mar 7, 1999 | Innovation, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Innovation is one of those curious phenomena which is universally desirable. Jay R. Galbraith argues that when it comes to creating it inside of existing organizations, innovation is one of the most difficult things to produce let alone to master.

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Breaking the Code of Change: The Role of Formal Structure and Process

Mar 6, 1999 | Change Management, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

This chapter by Jay R. Galbraith will argue that under many circumstances, the change to formal organizational structures and systems is central to the success of the overall change process.

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Designing a Reconfiguration Organization

Jan 1, 1999 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay Galbraith states that every company needs an organization which changes as quickly as its business changes. If not, the company is falling behind.

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Tomorrow’s Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World

Jan 30, 1998 | Future of HR, Organization Design

Based on eighteen years of in-depth research, this powerful new book by Albers Mohrman, Jay R. Galbraith , and Edward E. Lawler III describes the building blocks for creating tomorrow’s dynamic organizations and provides hands-on guidance for implementing change.

The Front-Back Hybrid Organization

Oct 13, 1997 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay Galbraith explains that a number of companies have been adopting a hybrid structure in order to respond to the simultaneous demands to be local and customer responsive and yet be global and capture scale economics.

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Avoiding the Corporate Dinosaur Syndrome

May 21, 1994 | Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

The characteristics that are associated with large corporations becoming dinosaurs are identified. A number of practices are suggested in this paper by E. Lawler III and J. Galbraith that can prevent an organization from becoming dominated by these dysfunctional characteristics.

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Positioning Human Resource as a Value Adding Function: The Case of Rockwell International

Sep 4, 1992 | Diversity and Inclusion, Sponsor Content

In this paper by Jay Galbraith, a description is presented as to how a diverse corporation, Rockwell International, is trying to add value to its businesses.

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Designing Informal Networks

Apr 11, 1992 | Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith explains that the continuous search for competitive advantage is leading many companies to examine their organization. Traditional barriers to entry and sources of advantage like scale and patents are easily circumvented today through actions like strategic alliances.

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The Value Adding Corporation

Apr 3, 1992 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that the concept of the American Corporation has been evolving for some time. By the early 1980s a consensus had developed around the different types of corporations and their organizations.

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The Business Unit of the Future

Apr 1, 1992 | Future of HR, Organization Design, Sponsor Content

Jay R. Galbraith states that the business unit is a basic building block of the corporation’s structure. Collections of businesses make up the corporation’s portfolio.

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New Forms of Organization III

Aug 1, 1991 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

The Center for Effective Organizations and Fiat have conducted a series of travelling seminars. This part of the series by Jay Galbraith focused on organization forms for competitive renewal.

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New Organization Forms for Manufacturing Competitiveness

Jul 1, 1991 | Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Sponsor Content

Jay Galbraith of the Center for Effective Organizations and FIAT conducted their second “traveling seminar” in order to study new forms of organization being used by manufacturing companies.

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