The Octopus Organization
a guide to thriving in a world of continuous transformation
$60.00
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2025
Summary
The Octopus Organization: A Nimble Operating Model for Lasting Change
Leave large-scale transformation efforts behind. Drive lasting change with a new, nimbler operating model focused on small-scale, continuous change.
Large-scale organizational transformations usually don’t work. What originally starts as a way of improving an organization becomes an all-consuming distraction, a value-destroying set of activities that, even as it becomes clear they will fai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798892791403 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Phil Le-Brun, Jana Werner |
| Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard Business Review Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm |
About The Author
Phil Le-Brun
Phil Le-Brun is an Enterprise Strategy Director at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and former Corporate Vice President of Global Technology Development and International CIO of McDonald’s. He engages with hundreds of executives and executive teams of Fortune 2000 and public sector customers to mentor, advise, guide, and share best practices on their journeys to becoming cloud-based digital organizations. At McDonald’s, he was a leader in accelerating the impact of technology across 38,000 restaurants conducting more than 70 million transactions.
Jana Werner leads AWS’s Enterprise Transformation Practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, advising and guiding executive teams of AWS’s strategic customers. Werner combines this broad insight with hands-on experience, having led a digital transformation at Tesco Bank UK across all levels, from executive to engineering, and facets, from culture to cloud.
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