Executing Transformation

Executing Transformation
Author: Joel Bigley
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1480869325

With the competitive landscape changing faster than ever before, leaders understandably favor what has worked for them in the past. But that kind of approach doesn’t give anyone the motivation to develop new and better strategies to execute and navigate change. As a result, change leaders and practitioners find themselves asking the same-old questions: • With no time for failure, how can initiatives be moved forward? • How do you fit the right change method to the change objective? • How do you create a roadmap that is designed for success? • Why do some organizations succeed with change while others struggle? The authors share the insights of change management thought leaders that have stood the test of time within the scope of organization-wide change. Change managers today can review the work of these thought leaders to better understand and implement effective change in their organizations. The authors also propose a holistic meta-framework to create a path for enterprise-wide change. With the insights from case studies, you’ll learn how to create a customized and robust transformation plan for your own organizational change initiatives.

Executing Your Business Transformation

Executing Your Business Transformation
Author: Mark Morgan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470474408

Practical, tested, implementable real-world advice for transforming any business and is written by people that have “been there and done that”. Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the reader to a more powerful position as an agent of change. Based on the authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformation, this book provides valuable guidance for any company engaged in large scale change brought on by shifts in the competitive landscape, mergers, acquisitions, or a major restructuring of their business model. Many organizations undergo transformation with lots of enthusiasm, but are frustrated with the results. This book contains a set of lessons gained in the process of working in and with organizations in the process of transformation. The book starts out by framing transformation and explains the overall system the enterprise that is involved in transformation. By doing so, clarity is brought to the question of why change is so difficult and problematic. What you can expect to get by reading this book is: A way of looking at transformation that is comprehensive and yet manageable without all the buzzword bingo terminology 11 critical lessons taken from the author’s broad experience on a broad range of topics that you can leverage in your situation To get some thought provoking insight from 10 key questions for each lesson that you can use to apply the lessons to your organization A comprehensive framework for leading transformation that will challenge your thinking and provide a path forward to taking immediate action With rare insight and candor, the authors provide thoughtful advice backed by examples from their comprehensive experience. If you don’t like transformation, you are going to hate irrelevance. This book is your best bet for getting the insight you need to transform your organization before it becomes irrelevant.

Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy

Supply Chain Transformation: Building and Executing an Integrated Supply Chain Strategy
Author: J. Paul Dittmann
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071798315

STREAMLINE OPERATIONS AND DELIVER MORE VALUE THAN EVER WITH A STRONG SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY "Dittmann’s thoughtful approach and real-world examples make this book is an excellent resource for anyone in the supply chain field, whether a beginner or an executive seeking a better framework for the existing supply chain strategy." -- Dave Clark, Vice President, Global Customer Fulfillment, Amazon "A practical approach for developing and implementing breakthrough customer-driven integrated supply chain strategies designed to generate best in class operating and financial performance for any enterprise." -- Paul H. Trueax III, Vice President, North America Customer Services and Logistics, Colgate Palmolive "An effective supply chain strategy can have a huge impact on all of the stakeholders of the organization. This book lays out nine clear and concise steps that are very helpful as your company starts this critical process." -- Bill Hutchinson, Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Fulfillment, Dell "Dittmann's book lays out a customer-driven, case-derived nine-step method for creating and implementing a transformational supply chain strategy. It is a must-read for any supply chain professional developing or refreshing a supply chain strategy." -- Reuben Slone, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Walgreens

Business Transformation Framework - To get from Strategy to Execution

Business Transformation Framework - To get from Strategy to Execution
Author: Jeroen Stoop
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401805806

For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material. This book explains the Business Transformation Framework, BTF Version 2016, a structural approach based on best practice. It is a practical approach that helps organizations to design, develop, plan and govern organizational change. Obviously developing a solid and widely supported Change plan is the first step towards a successful organizational change! Simply said: BTF helps to get control over organizational change! In the BTF coherence and collaboration are essential. The BTF approach imposes the establishing of coherence between organizational setting, strategy, and business transformation portfolio as well as between the four different aspects of running the business: Customer Treatment & Channels, Processes & organizational culture, Information & applications and IT infrastructure & facilities. This is a complex process. The BTF methodology helps to make this a manageable process by following a structured and step-by-step approach. Establishing coherence is possible when all divisions in the organizations work together . . Coherence can only be achieved when all levels in the organization and all divisions and employees work closely together. The methodology aims at making change tactile and concrete, so that all stakeholders can be committed and contribute. In the BTF the design and development go hand in hand. That is so, because people are willing to change, but do not like to get a change imposed upon themselves! This book is the official manual of the Business Transformation Framework, BTF Version 2016. Primary target groups are: managers and professionals in the information-intensive firms and industries that are confronted with organizational change. The BTF has already been put into use by: operations managers, CIOs, information managers, portfolio managers, change managers, programme managers and consultants.

Orchestrating Transformation

Orchestrating Transformation
Author: Michael Wade
Publisher: Dbt Center Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781945010033

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents' value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry. For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is another matter. The hard truth is that despite leaders' best efforts, and billions spent in pursuit of digital transformation, the vast majority of organizational change programs fizzle, falling well short of their expected impacts. Because failed transformation programs put incumbents behind the eight ball in dealing with disruptive competition, organizations can ill-afford for their transformation programs to flop. With this important new book, Orchestrating Transformation: How to Deliver Winning Performance with a Connected Approach to Change, the team at the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco initiative, set out a new prescription for getting transformation right. The piecemeal strategies and pilot projects that are hallmarks of conventional transformation programs are hopelessly inadequate for the intricate, sprawling organizational environments found in most companies. Transformation practitioners need a different mindset and a new approach to executing change that can handle the complexity and scale of today's market leaders. Orchestration--"mobilizing and enabling so as to achieve a desired effect"--paves the way for a new, more holistic view of organizational resources and how they work together to drive change synergistically. The follow-up to 2016's award-winning Digital Vortex, Orchestrating Transformation is packed with quantitative and qualitative insights from years of applied research and engagement with executives around the world. A unique and indispensable guide for practitioners, the book moves past traditional change management doctrine to show how a connected approach to change can change everything.

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Author: Pieter Van Gorp
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331942064X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016, as Part of STAF 2015, the federation of a number of the leading conferences on software technologies. The 13 revised papers were carefully selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on model transformation languages, model transformation tools, developing model transformations, applications of model transformations, and looking ahead.

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Author: Jordi Cabot
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364221732X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference, ICMT 2011, held in Zurich, Switzerland in June 2011. The 14 revised full papers were carefully revised and selected from 51 submissions. The scope of the contributions ranges from theoretical and methodological topics to implementation issues and applications. Topics addressed are such as transformation paradigms and languages, transformation algorithms and strategies, implementation and tools, as well as applications and case studies.

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Author: Antonio Vallecillo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540699279

Models have become essential for dealing with the numerous aspects involved in developing and maintaining complex IT systems. Models allow capturing of the relevant aspects of a system from a given perspective, and at a precise level of abstraction. In addition to models, the transformations between them are other key elements in model-driven engineering. Model transformations allow the de?nition and implementation of the operations on models, and also provide achainthatenablestheautomateddevelopmentofasystemfromitscorrespo- ing models. Furthermore, model transformations may be realized using models, and are, therefore, an integral part of any model-driven approach. There are already several proposals for model transformation speci?cation, implementation and execution, which are beginning to be used by modeling practitioners. However, model transformations need specialized support in s- eral aspects in order to realize their full potential. The problem goes beyond having speci?c languages to represent model transformations; we also need to understandtheirfoundations,suchasthekeyconceptsandoperatorssupporting those languages, their semantics, and their structuring mechanisms and pr- erties (e. g. , modularity, composability and parametrization). In addition, model transformations can be stored in repositories as reusable assets, where they can be managed, discovered and reused. There is also a need to chain and combine model transformations in order to produce new and more powerful transfor- tions, and to be able to implement new operations on models. Finally, model transformations need methodology support, i. e. , they need to be integrated into software development methodologies supported by appropriate tools and en- ronments. These issues and concerns de?ne the focus of these proceedings.

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Author: Dimitris Kolovos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319211552

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2015, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2015, as Part of STAF 2015, the federation of a number of the leading conferences on software technologies. The 16 revised papers were carefully selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on change management; reuse and industrial applications; new paradigms for model transformation; transformation validation and verification; and foundations of model transformation.

Building Transformation Networks for Consistent Evolution of Interrelated Models

Building Transformation Networks for Consistent Evolution of Interrelated Models
Author: Klare, Heiko
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3731511320

Complex software systems are described with multiple artifacts, such as code, design diagrams and others. Ensuring their consistency is crucial and can be automated with transformations for pairs of artifacts. We investigate how developers can combine independently developed and reusable transformations to networks that preserve consistency between more than two artifacts. We identify synchronization, compatibility and orchestration as central challenges, and we develop approaches to solve them.