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Aware Organizations
Making these knowledge workers efficient is the most significant business challenge of the next century. If the twentieth century was shaped by automation and mass production, the twenty-first will be defined by those who can best curate knowledge. To get there, we need to rethink the management approaches—and underlying tools—around which businesses are organized.
Tags: aware, knowledge work, organizations, productivity, efficient
PDF Info: 9 pagesPDF size: 900 KB
Deployment/Security Guide
Deploying Brainpark within your organization is easy. Brainpark provides three different deployment methods to meet any company infrastructure and compliance mandate. In addition to matching the implementation method to your existing infrastructure Brainpark has established operating best practices to ensure our technology is an ideal secure and compliant addition to your Information Technology landscape.
Tags: executive, summary, deployment, critical projects, SMB deployment, advantages, case
PDF Info: 12 pagesPDF size: 1.2 MB
Higher Performance with a Higher Purpose
Organizations who choose to emphasize co-alignment with its employees at a higher purpose and identity level will gain emotional engagement that drives higher performance with social and environmental responsibility.
Tags: performance, co-alignment, mission
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Work Democracy and Self-Managing Teams
Since the time of Adam Smith and the beginning of capitalism the chasm between work and life has increased. On one hand we have worked hard in the western world to develop democracy under the foundations of authority, privacy, responsibility, and justice. On the other hand we have focused on building management systems that operate under the simplistic perception of a machine where every part (person) needs managed.
Tags: governance, democracy, self-management, abstract, report, work group
PDF Info: 15 pagesPDF size: 956 KB
Organizational Empowerment and System Psychodynamics
System Psychodynamics (which in turn became Systems Psychodynamics) had its first print mention in the Tavistock Institute’s 1992/93 Review. Although it would seem like a new discipline it would be more accurate to see it as a practical combination of three influences, the practice of psychoanalysis, group relations theory, and systems theory in the study of group and organizational processes. This paper reflects back on the history and emergence of this discipline with reference to its foundational roots.
Tags: organization, empowerment, psychodynamics
PDF Info: 10 pagesPDF size: 904 KB
