Data-Driven Organization Design: Sustaining the Competitive Edge Through Organizational Analytics

SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Management Futures Category

Understand how to drive business performance with your organizational data and analytics in the second edition of Data-Driven Organization Design.

Using data and analytics is a key opportunity for businesses to transform performance and achieve success. With a data-driven approach, all the elements of the organizational system can be connected to design an environment in which people can excel and attain competitive advantage. Data-Driven Organization Design provides a practical framework for HR and organization design practitioners to build a baseline of data, set objectives, carry out fixed and dynamic process design, map competencies, and right-size the organization. It shows how to collect the right data, present it meaningfully and ask the most relevant questions of it to help complex, fluid organizations constantly evolve and meet moving objectives.

This updated second edition contains new material on organizational planning and analysis, role design and job architecture, position management lifecycle and delta reporting. Alongside this, new case studies and examples will show how these approaches have been applied in practice. Whether planning a long-term transformation, a large redesign or an individual small project, Data-Driven Organization Design will demonstrate how to make the most of your organizational data and analytics to drive business performance.

Rupert Morrison is the Founder and CEO of Arahi, where he advises CEOs and management teams on how to leverage technology to craft and execute groundbreaking strategies. Prior to this, he was Founder and CEO of Concentra Analytics, a leading analytics company recognised for its innovation by the Sunday Times FastTrack Tech 100, and led the creation of OrgVue, a platform solution for HR analytics, organization design and workforce planning, which was selected as one of four Gartner Cool Vendors in the Human Capital Management field from across the globe.

Based in London, UK, Rupert Morrison is also an international conference speaker and industry writer whose contributions have featured in Forbes, The Telegraph and the FT. He is the author of Data-Driven Organization Design, Organizational Planning and Analysis and Strategic Value Creation, all published with Kogan Page.