MACMILLAN Transforming Organizations in Disruptive Environments: A Primer on Design and Innovation

This textbook provides a design approach to the topics of innovation and disruption, by drawing on a variety of tools, techniques, and methods, and focusing on solutions that combine data and technology. The premise of the book is the creation of value for the organisations, stakeholders, and community, to enable creative transformation. The book  highlights the importance of value and using knowledge to create a seamless roadmap that adds to stakeholder values through best practice business processes that use technology in innovative  ways.  Written in a clear, simple, and concise manner, avoiding complicated constructions and jargon, the book includes rich illustrations, and summaries and case studies  that follow the roadmap at the end of each chapter. Review “This book deals with the current issues highly important in the business world. This book is not only useful for academicians in the management and computer science, but also for managers in the business enterprises; for sure, executives in the state administration and research institutes will profit from the viewpoints and suggested solutions presented in this book. The Author addresses how organizational transformation can be effectively managed, what values can be achieved, and what problems are to be solved. The Author has in depth knowledge of issues in design in complex environments and continuous transformation circumstances. The book takes the reader on a journey through its 12 chapters: from understanding the organization in complex world, to examining how important are people values in transformation, and to new business models’ consideration. The organizational transformation is an important practice, and its importance and usefulness will only increase. The Author emphasizes that organizational transformation is related with disruptive technology, climate change and smart cities development. This book takes an integrative approach, including organization and business values, knowledge, systems, stakeholders, issues, and problem solutions.” (Małgorzata Pańkowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland) From the Back Cover This textbook provides a design approach to the topics of innovation and disruption, by drawing on a variety of tools, techniques, and methods, and focusing on solutions that combine data and technology. The premise of the book is the creation of value for the organisations, stakeholders, and community, to enable creative transformation. The book  highlights the importance of value and using knowledge to create a seamless roadmap that adds to stakeholder values through best practice business processes that use technology in innovative  ways.  Written in a clear, simple, and concise manner, avoiding complicated constructions and jargon, the book includes rich illustrations, and summaries and case studies  that follow the roadmap at the end of each chapter. About the Author Dr. Igor Hawryszkiewycz has contributed to business system design in many areas, more recently as  Professor of Computing Science in the Faculty of Engineering   and Information Technology. His early expertise was to develop design methods for database and information systems in consultation with Government and Industry. This was  followed by the design of collaborative systems in community environments, and ways to support creative teams. He has close to three hundred research publications and six books, one in second and another in their fifth editions, in this area. Currently his research is on encouraging creativity in organizations based on design thinking and its use in multidisciplinary collaboration in teams working in complex environments.