A groundbreaking method for clearing the organizational roadblocks that keep you from doing your job and delivering results The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important.
There has to be a better way.
And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.
The five principles of dynamic work design—solve the right problem, structure for discovery, connect the human chain, regulate the flow, visualize the work—have yielded breakthrough results in settings ranging from biotech labs and hospitals to oil refineries, homeless shelters, and casinos.
Large-scale change initiatives, reorganizations, and productivity programs are costly, rarely improve productivity, and always add a lot of busywork.
There’s Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, transforming how you understand your own tasks and your organization’s workflow, allowing you to redesign your work to boost productivity, profit and genuine engagement.
"Intense pressure, long hours, and perpetually changing priorities are just few of the many issues people contend while working in and leading organizations. As one manager told Nelson Repenning and Don Kieffer: "I start Monday morning by making a list of all the important things I need to do this week. I work my ass off all week, but on Friday afternoon I wonder what the hell happened". The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective seemingly never-ending round of workarounds, firefighting, herding cats, and playing whack-a-mole. There has got to be a better way. And there is: the groundbreaking discipline of dynamic work design that improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, forming the how-to for the way all parts of the company can work in concert, not as individual, disconnected pieces. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered. The five principles of dynamic work design for understanding how work really gets done have been used to remove organizational roadblocks, reach collective goals that previously seemed impossible, and overcome serious business-threatening problems. It has yielded breakthrough results in settings ranging from bio-tech labs, hospitals, oil refineries, homeless shelters, and casinos. It is used for complex work where people are the primary source of productivity and need to see how they can work together effectively on issues ranging from ensuring the safety of patients following heart surgery to saving money in an oil refinery's procurement process. When things don't work companies often engage in unending streams of reorganizations, initiatives, and productivity systems that don't improve productivity but do add a lot of busywork. There's Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, enabling managers to rethink basic beliefs about their task and change the way they see and think about the flow of work in their organizations"--
