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Clay Spinuzzi's Topsight Featured on Good Day Austin
Posted: January 25, 2013
Professor Clay Spinuzzi's new book, Topsight
Professor Clay Spinuzzi's new book, Topsight, was featured on Good Day Austin. The interview can be found here.
Earlier:
Professor Spinuzzi has published a new book, Topsight: A Guide to Studying, Diagnosing, and Fixing Information Flow in Organizations.
Book description:
Topsight—the overall understanding of the big picture—is hard toachieve in organizations. There’s too much going on, too many moving pieces. But without topsight, we have a hard time figuring out how information circulates, where it gets stuck, and how we can get it unstuck.
Topsight is hard to get—but you can get it. I know: I’ve been achieving topsight into various organizations for the last 15 years. Along the way, I’ve developed an approach in which I gather clues, confirm details, model social interactions, and use all of these to systematically achieve topsight. Read this book and you’ll learn how to
- design a field study at your organization
- convince your organization and individuals to take part in the field study
- conduct the field study, collecting solid data
- navigate the data you collect
- analyze the data using several different models that can provide insights into systemic issues that haven’t yet been understood within the organization
- write a solid recommendation report that presents your findings and recommends ways to solve those systemic issues
