Amy Kates – författare

Praise for Leading Organization Design "Sheds light on the challenges of organization design in a complex enterprise and more importantly provides an insightful and practical roadmap for business decisions." —Randy MacDonald, SVP, human resources, IBM "Designing organizations for performance can be a daunting task. Kesler and Kates have done an admirable job distilling the inherent complexity of the design process into manageable parts that can yield tangible results. Leading Organization Design provides an essential hands-on roadmap for any business leader who wants to master this topic." —Robert Simons, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School "Kesler and Kates have encapsulated their wealth of knowledge and practical experience into an updated model on organizational design that will become a new primer on the subject." —Neville Isdell, retired chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company "In today's world of global business, organizational design is a critical piece of long-term success. Kesler and Kates have captured multiple approaches to optimize global opportunities, while highlighting some of the keys to managing through organizational transition. A great read for today's global business leaders." —Charles Denson, president, Nike Brand "Leading Organization Design has some unique features that make it valuable. It is one of the few and certainly only recent books to take us through an explicit process to design modern organizations. This is accomplished with the five-milestone process. The process is not a simple cookbook. Indeed, the authors have achieved a balance between process and content. In so doing, Kesler and Kates show us what to do as well as how to do it." —Jay Galbraith, from the Foreword

Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith’s widely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leaders execute their strategy. The authors address the five specific design challenges that confront most of today’s organizations: ·        Designing around the customer·        Organizing across borders·        Making a matrix work·        Solving the centralization—and decentralization dilemma·        Organizing for innovation

Five practical steps to enhance organization effectiveness on a global scale Bridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves. Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as robust as their strategies. Many companies have created elegant designs and consider their worldwide, matrix organizations sources of competitive advantage. However, the reality is that these complex structures bring many challenges and senior executives are often frustrated by the difficulties of delivering growth in organizations that span numerous brands, products, and geographic regions. After working closely with over twenty large US and Europe based global companies during the past decade, Gregory Kesler and Amy Kates concluded that the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The matrix is not going away. The challenge is to effectively and completely activate the organization to deliver the strategy. This book shares the five practical actions that bring complex organizations to life and help companies gain sustainable results from their global operating models.

The definitive field guide for organization design practitioners—where decades of proven methodology meet the tools and insights needed to lead transformation in today's complex world.The Organization Design Practitioner: Building Operating Models That Deliver is the new book from two of the best-known thinkers in the field of organization design, providing practitioners with a well-tested methodology and a fresh set of accompanying tools for navigating today’s business challenges.Greg Kesler and Amy Kates are operating model authorities who have advanced Jay Galbraith's foundational theory connecting all design elements of an organization to its strategy. This capstone to their careers brings to the topic the wisdom of more than 60 combined years of experience working with many of the best global companies in the world.In this fifth book together, they speak directly to the organization design practitioner with a clear and practical narrative, rooted in their consulting, writing, and teaching experience. Amy and Greg share the Five Milestone design process, used in hundreds of companies today, where they have trained more than 5,000 practitioners in the Kates Kesler methodology.Readers will find: Guidance on how to create designs that are built to deliver the benefits of both scale and agility.Insights into becoming a trusted advisor at every step of the design process.Methods for integrating AI tools to accelerate and augment design work, while preserving human judgment.Ways to engage leadership teams that result in more effective activation of the new operating model.A roadmap to develop the skills and impact needed by today’s organization design practitioner.  The book includes a robust appendix that delivers more than 75 frameworks and tools that the authors have found most useful in their work, whether at the enterprise business unit, geographic region, or function level. All of the tools will be available electronically to those who purchase the book, a valuable benefit for both the seasoned and the aspiring practitioner.An essential resource for organization design practitioners, organization development professionals, and HR leaders, this new book equips both internal and external consultants with the human-centered strategies needed to transform organizations in an era of unprecedented complexity.

WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2025 - Business: GeneralHow can you redesign your operating model to drive growth, agility and sustainability in a changing economy? Rethinking Operating Models, edited by Kent McMillan, Greg Kesler and Amy Kates is a practical guide for managers, department heads and organization design and development leads seeking to adapt structures, processes and capabilities to meet today's toughest business challenges.Written by a team of experts, the book offers proven frameworks and actionable tools to align your model with strategic goals while responding to technological change, evolving markets and increasing stakeholder demands.You'll learn how to: - Build agile operating models that adapt to rapid data and tech shifts - Manage complexity and cost without sacrificing innovation or service - Integrate sustainability and responsibility into core business design - Execute mergers, acquisitions and divestments effectivelyPacked with real-world examples, this book shows senior professionals how to tailor models to their unique context, accelerate decision-making and position their organization for long-term success.Themes include: operating model design, organizational agility, transformation strategy, sustainability integration, change execution

WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2025 - Business: GeneralHow can you redesign your operating model to drive growth, agility and sustainability in a changing economy? Rethinking Operating Models, edited by Kent McMillan, Greg Kesler and Amy Kates is a practical guide for managers, department heads and organization design and development leads seeking to adapt structures, processes and capabilities to meet today's toughest business challenges.Written by a team of experts, the book offers proven frameworks and actionable tools to align your model with strategic goals while responding to technological change, evolving markets and increasing stakeholder demands.You'll learn how to: - Build agile operating models that adapt to rapid data and tech shifts - Manage complexity and cost without sacrificing innovation or service - Integrate sustainability and responsibility into core business design - Execute mergers, acquisitions and divestments effectivelyPacked with real-world examples, this book shows senior professionals how to tailor models to their unique context, accelerate decision-making and position their organization for long-term success.Themes include: operating model design, organizational agility, transformation strategy, sustainability integration, change execution

While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable. Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips.Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.