Designing Organizations

Jay R. Galbraith's guide to organization design is built on his Star Model, which treats strategy, structure, processes, rewards and people as a single connected framework. It explains the basics of designing an organization, however complex, that can respond quickly to customer demands and gain a distinctive competitive advantage. Coverage includes single-business functional organizations and the cross-functional lateral processes typical of them, as well as holding companies, divisional structures, conglomerates that add value, portfolio strategy and global organizations. A special section asks whether big data will add a new dimension to organizational structure. Examples come from companies such as IBM, Disney, Rovio and Nike. The third edition substantially expanded the book with material on business unit and enterprise design.

ChangeFlow Consulting founder Denise Morris Kipnis listed it in an interview among the books she recommends to young people who want to follow her career path.