Designing Your Organization, Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges

Designing Your Organization, Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges **** Authors: Amy Kates and Jay Galbraith Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2007

Reviewer: Patsy Svare, The Chatfield Group

This new book by Kates and Galbraith is a superb application guide. Think Betty Crocker in a new space: Designing Your Organization is a practical, hands-on reference manual and toolkit for human resource and organization design professionals and for managers and leaders who make the critical decisions about organization strategy and execution.

The book does not present new theories or research, but rather references Galbraith 's widely used Star Model to focus on five organizational design challenges business leaders face today:

* Designing around the customer -...