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Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change Reviews

Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change

When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family’s farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis’s granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather’s and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life. Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of social and working life–from how students are taught to how research and accounting are done–at this major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights into contemporary society’s obsession with technology. Today technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological and social innovation–a connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this absorbing book.

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The Spider’s Strategy: Creating Networks to Avert Crisis, Create Change, and Really Get Ahead

The Spider’s Strategy: Creating Networks to Avert Crisis, Create Change, and Really Get Ahead

Selected by Soundview as “One of the 30 Best Business Books of 2009″

 

“Mukherjee beautifully weaves the ever-morphing web of technology, business, and organizational learning together and explains why both top executives and middle managers must care about their impact.”

Sudipta Bhattacharya

President, Invensys Wonderware

 

“The business world is moving toward non-hierarchical networks…. The answer to these changes is a combination of network management and collaborative leadership. Mukherjee…goes beyond description of best practices. The four Design Principles that he has developed to implement networks are conceptually well thought through and actionable. This book deserves to be read by anybody who is interested in tomorrow’s organization.”

Arnoud De Meyer

Director, Judge Business School, Cambridge University

 

“An ‘adaptive organization’ must count as the response in the increasingly connected world in which business will operate in the decades ahead.… [Mukherjee] makes a terrific case of how to achieve the desired response. A great read for the ‘concerned’ before they reach the stage of being ‘tormented.’”

R. Gopalakrishnan

Executive Director, TATA Sons Limited

 

“Beyond the obvious, this is a great and pragmatic book, demonstrating the incredible power of collaboration in action.”

Jean-Francois Baril

Senior Vice President, Nokia Corporation

 

“Though many have sought to unlock the secrets of creating learning organizations, few have succeeded. In The Spider’s Strategy, Mukherjee provides the keys to the learning kingdom.… And he shows what it really takes to leverage the power of networks. It is that rare business book that deserves to be read from cover-to-cover.”

Michael Watkins

Author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

 

“Mukherjee has written a very thoughtful and thought provoking book.… The adaptive network perspective with its four Design Principles and the accompanying five Capabilities inspired by a Chief Network Officer will be the organizations of the present and future.… The book presents good theory, research grounded in facts, and a clear picture of what is both necessary and possible, going forward.”

Alexander B. Horniman

Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business Administration, University of Virginia

 

To thrive in a world where networks of companies increasingly compete with other networks, managers can no longer focus solely on excellence in planning and execution. In The Spider’s Strategy, top business consultant Amit S. Mukherjee provides the tools you need to sense and respond to unexpected events. He shows why and how managers in your company must apply four powerful “Design Principles” today:

 

• Change everyday work practices by embedding “sense and response” within your normal plan-and-execute processes.
• Promote collaboration across partner companies by establishing practical mechanisms that make “win-win” a basis for action not an empty slogan.
• Ensure that work really teaches by assuring the culture, processes, and organizational structure to improve your company’s ability to learn.
• Implement those key technological capabilities that allow the network to function seamlessly.

 

The heart of this book includes proven implementation advice based on conversations with successful innovators at HP, Nokia, and beyond. Mukherjee offers new insight into everything from work practices to culture and corporate organization and shows how to overcome even the most stubborn obstacles to effective collaboration amongst partners.

 

 

Acknowledgments xiii

About the Author x

 

Part I: Why Change?

Chapter 1: The Fire That Changed an Industry 3

Chapter 2: Shadows of the Past 17

Chapter 3: Visions from the Present 45

Part II: Design Principles for Adaptive Capabilities

Chapter 4: Transform Everyday Work 69

Chapter 5: Succeed in a Dog-Eat-Dog World 97

Chapter 6: Ensure That Work Teaches 131

Chapter 7: Make Technology Matter 163

Part III: Going Adaptive

Chapter 8: Create the Organization 197

Chapter 9: Introduce Change Holographically 209

Epilogue: Two Views of a Company 225

 

Index 229

 

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Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas Reviews

Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

• ISBN13: 9780201741575
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• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

“All that have ever tried to impose change in their organization will immediately recognize and truly value the in-depth knowledge and experience captured in this book. It contains a collection of eye-openers that is a treasure chest for pioneers of new organizational ideas, A fantastic toolbox for use in future missions!”
—Lise B. Hvatum, product development manager, Schlumberger

“If you have need of changing your organization, and especially of introducing new techniques, then you want to understand what is in this book. It will help you avoid common pitfalls that doom many such projects and will show you a clear path to success. The techniques are derived from the experience of many individuals and organizations. Many are also fun to apply. This stuff is really cool—and really hot.”
—Joseph Bergin, professor of computer science, Pace University, New York

“If change is the only guarantee in life, why is it so hard to do? As this book points out, people are not so much resistant to change itself as they are to being changed. Mary Lynn and Linda have successfully used the pattern form to capture and present the recurring lessons of successful change efforts and have placed a powerful knowledge resource in the hands of their readers.”
—Alan O’Callaghan, researcher, Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, United Kingdom

“The most difficult part of absorbing patterns, or any technology, into an organization is overcoming the people issues. The patterns in this book are the documentation of having gone through that experience, giving those that dare push the envelope a head start at success.”—David E. DeLano, IBM Pervasive Computing

“If you have ever wondered how you could possibly foster any cultural changes in your organization, in this book you will find a lot of concrete advice for doing so. I recommend that everyone read this book who has a vast interest in keeping his or her organization flexible and open for cultural change.”
—Jutta Eckstein, Independent Consultant, Objects In Action Author of Agile Software Development in the Large

48 Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change in Your Organization

Change. It’s brutally tough to initiate, even harder to sustain. It takes too long. People resist it.

But without it, organizations lose their competitive edge. Fortunately, you can succeed at making change. In Fearless Change, Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising illuminate 48 proven techniques, or patterns, for implementing change in organizations or teams of all sizes, and show you exactly how to use them successfully.

Find out how to

• Understand the forces in your organization that drive and retard change
• Plant the seeds of change
• Drive participation and buy-in, from start to finish
• Choose an “official skeptic” to sharpen your thinking
• Make your changes appear less threatening
• Find the right timing and the best teaching moments
• Sustain your momentum
• Overcome adversity and celebrate success

Inspired by the “pattern languages” that are transforming fields from software to architecture, the authors illuminate patterns for every stage of the change process: knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. These flexible patterns draw on the experiences of hundreds of leaders. They offer powerful insight into change-agent behavior, organizational culture, and the roles of every participant.

Best of all, they’re easy to use—and they work!

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