Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation - Softcover

Bahrami, Homa; Evans, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642024483 ISBN 13: 9783642024481

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

Super-Flexibility: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation.- Conceptual Foundations of Super-Flexibility: A Multi-Disciplinary Synthesis.- The Research Laboratory: Silicon Valley's Knowledge Ecosystem.- Super-Flexible Ecosystems: Innovating by Recycling.- Super-Flexible Strategies: Shifting Gears and Maneuvering Swift Turns.- Super-Flexible Execution: Experimenting, Iterating and Recalibrating.- Super-Flexible Organizations: Orgitechting Geo-Distributed Federations.- Super-Flexible Leadership: Aligning Knowledge Workers Through Peer-Peer Practices.- Becoming Super-Flexible: The Enterprise in Motion.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Today, we live in a dynamic and inter-connected world. A multitude of "revision triggers" make it necessary to anticipate, prepare for, and continuously adapt to new realities. The key to dynamic adaptation we argue, is to become "super-flexible". Super-flexibility is defined as the ability to engage in a continuous balancing act: on the one hand, we need to withstand turbulence and create stable anchors, on the other hand, we have to transform and adapt to new realities. Our leadership "toolkit" should help us diagnose on the fly, and take rapid actions as new developments unfold. This book is about how business leaders  can harness uncertainty and make their teams and enterprises "super-flexible". Based on 25 years of field research, advisory work, and professional experience in Silicon Valley' s innovative ecosystem, the authors present a cross-functional, "general management" toolkit for strategizing, organizing, leading, and ultimately re-inventing knowledge enterprises for a dynamic world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3642024483
• ISBN 13: 9783642024481
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232