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Capability is one of the most talked-about, and least defined, ideas in management.
Organization Capability: Define. Measure. Govern. is a practical guide for turning capability from a vague ambition into something leaders can clearly define, assess, verify, and govern.
Most organizations speak confidently about strategy, performance, transformation, and capability. But when the real question appears — Do we actually have the capability required to deliver? — the answer is often unclear, inconsistent, or based on assumption rather than evidence.
This book provides a disciplined and practical approach to organizational capability, organizational readiness, and performance governance for leaders who need more than buzzwords.
Inside this book you will learn how to:
- Define organization capability in clear and practical terms
- Translate strategy into explicit capability requirements
- Establish standards and operating conditions for performance
- Assess organizational readiness with greater rigor
- Verify whether performance can be achieved to standard
- Strengthen organizational effectiveness through clearer specification and evidence
- Improve decision-making, prioritization, and strategy execution
- Build stronger capability governance across the enterprise
Rather than treating capability as a maturity label or a loose collection of metrics, this book introduces a practical capability framework that helps leaders make capability a governable organizational asset.
The framework helps organizations move from assumptions about capability to evidence-based organizational judgment.
This book is written for:
- HR leaders seeking a more credible and strategically central role
- Enterprise leaders, COOs, and boards who need a clearer view of readiness, performance, and risk
- Organization design, operations, OD, risk, and transformation professionals who want a practical framework and shared language
This is not another generic management book or abstract model.
It is a practical guide to organizational capability: how to define it, measure it, and govern it with confidence.
If you have ever asked:
“Do we actually have the capability?”
This book provides a disciplined way to answer.
Part of the Vita Viri Organization & People series exploring organizational capability, leadership, work systems, HR strategy, and institutional design.
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À propos de l'auteur
Dr. Patrick Duffy is an organization scientist, advisor, and author specializing in organization capability, enterprise governance, and workforce performance. He is the originator of a systematic framework for measuring, designing, and governing organization capability as a foundation for enterprise effectiveness, productivity, and institutional performance.
With more than 30 years of experience across government, business, and the nonprofit sector, he has worked with and advised senior leaders on strategy execution, organizational design, workforce capability, structural reform, and performance improvement. His work focuses on diagnosing capability constraints within organizational systems and translating organizational science into practical operating models that improve measurable performance.
Dr. Duffy holds a doctorate and MPhil in organization science, an MBA from Cardiff University, an MSc from Bangor University, a postgraduate diploma from the London School of Economics, and an MA from the University of Leicester. His academic research includes a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Business and Public Administration (2025), where he proposed an empirical methodology for evaluating organization capability and its relationship to organizational effectiveness and productivity.
He is the author of a body of work on organization capability, workforce performance, and enterprise management, including Organization Capability: Define, Measure, Govern; Measuring Work and Productive Capacity; The HR Paradox; Culture System; and Competency Development: Curse or Cure?. His books establish organization capability as a measurable executive responsibility and provide evidence-based frameworks used by leaders to design effective organizations, strengthen workforce capability, and improve enterprise execution.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Capability is one of the most discussed and least defined ideas in management.Organization Capability: Define. Measure. Govern. is a practical guide for turning capability from a vague ambition into something leaders can clearly define, assess, verify, and govern.Most organizations speak confidently about strategy, performance, transformation, and capability. But when the real question arises, do we actually have the capability required to deliver The answer is often unclear, inconsistent, or based on assumption rather than evidence.This book provides a disciplined and practical approach to organizational capability, organizational readiness, and performance governance for leaders who need more than buzzwords.At its core is a simple but powerful idea. Capability must be treated as a defined, measurable, and governable organizational asset.Rather than relying on maturity labels or disconnected metrics, this book introduces a practical capability framework that enables leaders to move from assumption to evidence and from aspiration to operational clarity.Inside the book, you will learn how to:¿ Define organization capability in clear and practical terms¿ Translate strategy into explicit capability requirements¿ Establish standards and operating conditions for performance¿ Assess organizational readiness with greater rigor¿ Verify whether performance can be achieved to standard¿ Strengthen organizational effectiveness through clearer specification and evidence¿ Improve decision-making, prioritization, and strategy execution¿ Build stronger capability governance across the enterpriseThe framework supports more consistent and evidence-based organizational judgment, helping leaders understand not only what is planned but also what is actually possible.This book is written for:¿ HR leaders seeking a more credible and strategically central role¿ Enterprise leaders, COOs, and boards who need a clearer view of readiness, performance, and risk¿ Organization design, operations, OD, risk, and transformation professionals who want a practical framework and shared languageThis is not a generic management book or abstract model. It is a practical guide to organizational capability and how to define it, measure it, and govern it with confidence.If you have ever asked, do we actually have the capability This book provides a disciplined way to answer.Part of the Vita Viri Organization and People series on organizational capability, leadership, work systems, HR strategy, and institutional design. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781919268637
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