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Flexibility

Flexible Companies for the Uncertain World

Gill Eapen author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:17th Dec '09

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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. In an information- and knowledge-driven environment with high levels of uncertainty, most traditional ideas of structure, system, and strategy are ineffective. This book shows how to create, maintain, and accelerate an organization in a highly uncertain environment using flexibility. It analyzes the organization holistically and details its primary components independently. The author presents an economic framework of decision options to diagnose existing flexibility problems and provides guidance on how to improve flexibility and reduce risk. The text also describes how to design and maintain a high performance organization for the long run in an environment of high uncertainty.

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

ISBN: 9781439816325

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

192 pages