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How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health
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How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Alan P. Brache


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A groundbreaking approach to successful performance improvement Almost every executive in business today is faced with the challenge of improving performance, from incremental improvements to wholesale organizational change. Here, a world-renowned expert in organizational improvement asserts that most hard-won changes don't last for long, however, because of the inability to identify the root causes of the problem. How Organizations Work offers a clear, integrated solution to performance improvement via a new "Enterprise Model"-which takes into account all variables that influence performance. Alan Brache provides a comprehensive "physical exam" for checking an organization's vital signs and a 360-degree picture of how organizational dynamics can be harnessed to effect permanent improvements in performance.

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A groundbreaking approach to successful performance improvement

Almost every executive in business today is faced with the challenge of improving performance, from incremental improvements to wholesale organizational change. Here, a world-renowned expert in organizational improvement asserts that most hard-won changes don't last for long, however, because of the inability to identify the root causes of the problem. How Organizations Work offers a clear, integrated solution to performance improvement via a new "Enterprise Model"-which takes into account all variables that influence performance. Alan Brache provides a comprehensive "physical exam" for checking an organization's vital signs and a 360-degree picture of how organizational dynamics can be harnessed to effect permanent improvements in performance.

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  • Title How Organizations Work: Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health
  • Author Alan P. Brache
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, New York, NY USa
  • Date December 21, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780471200338 / 0471200336
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Management, Organizational effectiveness
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001045309
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.406

About the author

Alan Brache, Chief Technology Officer at Kepner-Tregoe, is responsible for creating product strategies, developing and upgrading consulting applications and skill development programs, ensuring delivery quality, writing on topical business is-sues, and developing internal consulting capability. He is one of the seven members of Kepner-Tregoe's Strategic Leadership Committee.
From 1978 to 1986 Mr. Brache served in a number of positions with Kepner-Tregoe, including Product Manager, Technical Director of the Strategy Group, and Vice President of Product Development. He rejoined the company in 1997. During his ten-year absence from Kepner-Tregoe, Mr. Brache co-founded and was a part-ner in The Rummler-Brache Group, a consulting and training company that spe-cializes in helping companies implement their strategies through the design and management of business processes, organization structures, measurement systems, and human performance environments.
Alan co-authored Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart, the book that launched the process improvement revolution and introduced the first set of tools for comprehensively managing an organization as an integrated system. He has published articles in 25 business magazines.

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