Tomorrows Organization or Evaluating Capital Projects

Tomorrow's Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World

Author: Associates

Create a more flexible, responsive, and competitive business

A Publication of The Center for Effective Organizations

Picking up where the successful Organizing for the Future left off, this work from the Center for Effective Organizations presents a coherent set of principles and hands-on guidance for creating the successful organization of tomorrow. Celebrated contributors such as Jay Conger, David Finegold, and Tora Bikson--not to mention the editors themselves--empower a book that captures the latest thinking and new practices regarding the design of complex organizations. The emerging forms and contexts of organizations, enablers of continuous performance improvement, and change implementation processes are among the many cutting-edge topics discussed.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Authors
	Introduction: The Challenge of Change: Organizing for Competitive Advantage	1
Pt. 1	Designing Competitive Organizations	21
1	Corporate Boards: Developing Effectiveness at the Top	23
2	Linking Customers and Products: Organizing for Product and Customer Focus	51
3	Designing the Networked Organization: Leveraging Size and Competencies	76
4	Structuring Global Organizations	103
Pt. 2	Enabling Competitive Performance	131
5	Organizing for Competencies and Capabilities: Bridging from Strategy to Effectiveness	133
6	The Changing Nature of Work: Managing the Impact of Information Technology	154
7	Employee Involvement, Reengineering, and TQM: Focusing on Capability Development	179
Pt. 3	Managing People in the Competitive Organization	209
8	The New Human Resources Management: Creating the Strategic Business Partnership	211
9	The New Learning Partnership: Sharing Responsibility for Building Competence	231
10	Executive Education: A Critical Lever for Organizational Change	264
11	Strategic Pay System Design	286
Pt. 4	Transforming the Organization	307
12	Teams and Technology: Extending the Power of Collaboration	309
13	Accelerating Organizational Learning During Transition	330
14	Catalyzing Organizational Change and Learning: The Role of Performance Management	362
	Conclusion: Facing the Challenges of the Future	394
	References	413
	Name Index	437
	Subject Index	443

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Evaluating Capital Projects

Author: Ahmed Riahi Belkaoui

The successful evaluation of capital projects requires not only a thorough understanding of traditional techniques of capital budgeting but advanced techniques as well. Riahi-Belkaoui examines the multidimensionality of capital budgeting in its various facets and in ways that executives with no special facility in the subject can follow. He covers replacement decisions, capital rationing, capital budgeting under inflation uncertainty, capital budgeting in a multinational setting with attention to political risks, social project evaluation, and concepts of wealth measurement and distribution. The result is a wide ranging treatment for executive decision makers in finance, banking, investment, and general management, and for their colleagues with similar interests in the academic community.

Booknews

Examines the scope of capital budgeting, looking at both traditional and nontraditional facets. Explains principles of true value of money and capital budgeting, then outlines advanced issues of replacement decisions, capital rationing, and capital budgeting under uncertainty and inflation. Examines areas associated with capital budgeting in a global context, discusses the determination of political risk and its use in capital budgeting internationally, and compares techniques of leasing versus purchasing. Examines techniques of capital budgeting as applied to social projects, and deals with behavioral and cognitive implications of wealth measurement and distribution. The author teaches accounting at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)