Cross / Thomas Driving Results Through Social Networks

How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-39957-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B US non-Franchise Leadership

Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies. In this groundbreaking book, they describe in-depth how these leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs, and accelerate innovation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cross, Robert L.

Thomas, Robert J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part One: Alignment.
1. Aligning Networks with Strategic Value Propositions.
2. Working Through Networks to Align Culture and Strategy.
Part Two: Execution.
3. Managing Rapid Innovation Through Effective Networks.
4. Driving Financial Return Through Network Investments.
5. Delivering Results Through Process Networks.
6. Delivering Results Through Project-Based Networks.
Part Three: Adaptation.
7. Driving Performance by Replicating High Performers'Networks.
8. Speeding Productivity in Newcomers and Avoiding KnowledgeDrain.
9. The Road Ahead: Emerging Opportunities for the NetworkPerspective.
About the Authors.
Notes.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Cross is associate professor, McIntire School ofCommerce at University of Virginia, where he specializes inorganizational behavior. He is also the director of The NetworkRoundtable (www.thenetworkroundtable.org), a consortium of over 100organizations focused on applications of network ideas that yieldmeasurable business impact and strategic advantage.
Robert J. Thomas is executive director of Accenture'sInstitute for High Performance and a senior executive based inBoston, Massachusetts. He specializes in leadership, organizationdesign, and transformational change.