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Operating Model Canvas
The journey from strategy to operating success depends on creating an organization that can deliver the chosen strategy. This book, explaining the Operating Model Canvas, shows you how to do this. It teaches you how to define the main work processes, choose an organization structure, develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. The Operating Model Canvas helps you to create a target operating model aligned to your strategy. The book contains more than 20 examples ranging from large multi-nationals to government departments to small charities and from an operating model for a business to an operating model for a department of five people. The book describes more than 15 tools, including new tools such as the value chain map, the organization model and the high-level IT blueprint. Most importantly, the book contains two fully worked examples showing how the tools can be used to develop a new operating model. This book should be on the desk of every consultant, every strategist, every leader of transformation, every functional business partner, every business or enterprise architect, every Lean expert or business improvement champion, in fact everyone who wants to help their organization be successful.
224 pages, Hardcover
Published April 12, 2017
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About the author
Andrew Campbell
144Ìýbooks3ÌýfollowersAndrew Campbell was born and brought up in Muir of Ord, Ross-shire. He is director of Ashridge Strategic Management Centre, visiting professor at City University Business School and author of ten books on business strategy.
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September 12, 2020
Frameworks in this book are like painting the picture - it is not about having a brush and paints it is about using them correctly. On the one hand tips from Operating Model Canvas seem to be very general. On the other hand, very quickly I found business cases from my work where they might help a little. If you feel "my company lack processes" - those tools can help you set them up.
How I would read that book now?
The first half of the book includes basics and many examples. But after 3-4 examples you can skip to the second part. There are "additional" tools (which btw. are the most useful) and a more detailed example. The good side of such a big number of examples is that you can take a general look at many different organizations.
That book requires patience - you won't find here mind-blowing insights.
How I would read that book now?
The first half of the book includes basics and many examples. But after 3-4 examples you can skip to the second part. There are "additional" tools (which btw. are the most useful) and a more detailed example. The good side of such a big number of examples is that you can take a general look at many different organizations.
That book requires patience - you won't find here mind-blowing insights.
November 18, 2018
Very much like to graphical approach to explaining operating model design, as it is a very conceptual activity. Also like that it addressed the integration with Business Model Canvas. My preference is to broaden the scope operating model (to include much of Business Model Canvas), but really doesn't matter as long as both are addressed.
October 2, 2019
Walked away with a love/hate dynamic with the book. The visualizations were helpful for enabling the reader to quickly begin facilitating, but the content lacked depth. Not a lot of literature out there on the subject matter, so it's a shame that this one took a more shallow, practical approach.
November 11, 2017
Pretty good on first read and I've been picking it up as reference all week. I'm hoping this'll be helpful in my work.
December 29, 2020
A thoughtful condensation of years of different strands of research: e.g. by connecting design-thinking with organizational transformation and linking the business model canvas with the operating model canvas.
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