The T-Form Organization - Using Technology to Design Organizations for the 21st Century

Lucas, Henry C., Jr.

ISBN 10: 0787901679 / ISBN 13: 9780787901677

Published by Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1996

About this Item

Dust jacket in archival quality cover. Tan & Black covers, 253 pages. First edition, first printing. The author sets forth the thesis that firms that fail to take advantage of IT design variables to evolve toward a T-Form structure are unlikely to survive the global competitive challenges in the coming years.Thought-provoking.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The T-Form Organization - Using Technology to Design Organizations for the 21st Century
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, California
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787901679
• ISBN 13: 9780787901677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Give Your Organization The Technological Edge

Nuts-and-bolts advice on how to integrate information technology into conventional organization design. Comparing a variety of new IT design variables against the conventional variables of such noted organizational design and strategy experts as David Nadler and Jay Galbraith, the authors show executives, managers, and consultants precisely how they can use IT to make specific business functions more efficient and competitive. Electronic customer/supplier relationships, production automation, electronic work flows, and technological matrixing are among the many innovations discussed. Concrete examples from Merrill Lynch, Frito-Lay and other organizations help explain how.

About the Author

HENRY C. LUCAS is a research professor of information systems in the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He is the author of five previous books, including Information Systems Concepts for Management, 5th ed. (1994).