JAY R. GALBRAITH is president and founder of Galbraith Management Consultants, an international consulting firm that specializes in solving strategy and organizational design challenges across corporate, business unit, and international levels. He is also an affiliated research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and professor emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This Third Edition of the groundbreakingbook Designing Organizations offers a guide to theprocess of creating and managing an organization (no matter howcomplex) that will be positioned to respond effectively and rapidlyto customer demands and have the ability to achieve uniquecompetitive advantage. This latest edition includes freshillustrative examples and references, while the foundation of thebook remains the author's popular and widely used StarModel.
* Includes a comprehensive explanation of the basics oforganization design
* Outlines a strategic approach to design that is based on theStar Model, a holistic framework for combining strategy, structure,processes, rewards, and people
* Describes the different types of single-business, functionalorganizations and focuses on the functional structure and thecross-functional lateral processes that characterize mostsingle-business organizations.
* Features a special section on the effects of big data onorganization design, and whether or not it will result in a newdimension of organizational structure
Highlighting the social technologies used to coordinate workflows, products, and services across the company, this new editionof Designing Organizations brings theory to life with awealth of examples from such well-known companies as Disney, Nike,IBM, and Rovio (Angry Birds) to show how various kinds oforganization designs operate differently.