| Description |
1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
More corporate agility, less corporate real estate -- Putting workplace strategies in place -- Jones Lang Lasalle -- Sprint Nextel -- Hewlett-Packard -- The three major business challenges : costs, labor, and innovation -- Reducing fixed operating costs -- Reducing the corporate real estate footprint -- Additional means of CRE cost reduction -- Reconfiguring CRE -- Green building -- Choosing a location -- Outsourcing labor costs -- Spherion contingent workforce case study -- Attracting and retaining human talent -- Global demographic trends -- Educational trends -- Knowledge management -- Attraction and retention of labor -- Meaningful work -- Innovation and survival -- Technology and innovation -- Company culture and innovation -- Innovation and the workplace -- Under construction -- Innovation and the workforce -- Planting the seeds of innovation -- The virtual workforce -- The history of work -- The distributed workforce -- Resistance to the distributed workforce -- Assessment -- Productivity -- Offices without walls -- The workplace of the future -- Workplace strategy -- The live/work project -- Third places -- Business community centers -- The well-designed workplace -- The seven hallmarks of the productive workplace -- The seven hallmarks exemplified -- IA interior architects -- Collaborative strategic management -- A systems approach -- What does collaborative strategic management look like? -- The workplace/workforce transformation program -- Wrapping it all up -- Achieving corporate agility -- Why now? Change is more dramatic than ever -- Why now? Because the clock is already ticking -- Why now? Technology is reshaping our work world -- Leadership and strategy -- Questions you should be asking -- Questions for an agile organization -- Proceeding to answer the questions -- A new way of looking at organizations |
| Summary |
"As the leaders of the Work Design Collaborative, authors Charles Grantham and Jim Ware have helped some of the world's top companies become more productive. In Corporate Agility, they share the results of their ground-breaking five-year research project and the forward-thinking strategies that have grown out of this new knowledge. This is the first book to show companies the practical applications for staying competitive in a global economy."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Strategic planning.
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Organizational change.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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Organizational Innovation
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Strategic Planning.
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Organizational change
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Organizational effectiveness
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Strategic planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ware, James P
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Williamson, Cory.
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| ISBN |
9780814400678 |
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0814400671 |
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9780814409114 |
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0814409113 |
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