BOOKS · IDEAS · PRACTICAL FRAMEWORKS
SOME IDEAS TAKE MORE THAN AN ARTICLE.
Exploring the principles, decisions, and practices that shape how organizations work, and what leaders can do to make them work better.
Two publications in development.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE PRIMER
An introduction to the discipline of organizational architecture
In Development | Publication Date To Be Announced
Every organization has an architecture. The question is whether that architecture was deliberately designed or simply accumulated over time.
The Organizational Architecture Primer introduces a way of understanding how organizations function through five interconnected elements: structure, systems, authority, information, and processes.
It examines why capable people struggle inside poorly designed organizations, how operational problems develop, and why sustained organizational effectiveness requires deliberate architectural decisions.
Written for leaders, practitioners, and anyone responsible for making organizations work, the primer offers an accessible introduction to the principles behind the Operational Organization Framework™.
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THE OPERATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Designing and sustaining organizations that work
In Development | Publication Date To Be Announced
Organizations rarely become ineffective through a single decision. More often, their operating practices evolve without a corresponding examination of whether the underlying architecture still serves their needs.
Responsibilities accumulate. Authority becomes unclear. Processes develop independently. Information stops moving where it's needed.
The Operational Organization examines these patterns and the architectural decisions necessary to address them.
Built around the Operational Organization Framework™ and the Diagnose–Architect–Implement–Mature (DAIM) methodology, the book explores how leaders can design, implement, and steward organizations capable of sustained operational effectiveness.
It is intended for leaders and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of organizational architecture and its practical application.
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about the author
WRITTEN FROM EXPERIENCE
Mike Lisle is an organizational architect, writer, speaker, and founder of RBI Consulting Group.
His career spans more than 25 years of executive and operational leadership across nonprofit organizations, economic development, and local government.
His work examines the relationship between organizational design and operational effectiveness, drawing on experience as a nonprofit CEO, COO, and CFO and as the Town of Summerville's first Economic Development Manager.
His books bring together those experiences and the principles of the Operational Organization Framework™, a methodology for helping organizations deliberately design and sustain the architecture necessary to function effectively.
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