Implementing Strategic Change

Implementing Strategic Change
Author: Steven H. Hoisington
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book provides a discussion on major topics impacting an organization that is grappling with the concept of change management and the need to significantly improve performance. Many organizations, in the context of rapidly changing market dynamics and fierce competition, need to not only be responsive to these changes but also continue to re-strategize on an ongoing basis to remain on the leading edge. In trying to translate that objective into a reality, most companies remain clueless and wrestle with solutions of the day or flavors of the month or program of the year that often end up being less than effective. You can hear their mantra of wanting to be like a GE or an IBM without investing the time, energy, and resources to improve. Implementing Strategic Change offers a solution that will guide organizations to a methodical approach to remain competitively superior at all times. The book will assess the pros and cons of various models used to assess and guide an organization's overall performance such as reengineering, Six Sigma, and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria. explain different methods to establish and reinforce this behavior throughout all levels of the organization. The book will: 1. Stress upon the need to create and enhance customer and shareholder value. 2. Present an integrated approach that explains how to make best use of approaches such as EVA, Baldrige, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, etc. favorable odds.

Implementing Strategic Change

Implementing Strategic Change
Author: Daniel Samson
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749465557

One of the key success factors for any organization is effective strategic change - to ensure adaptability and increase productivity. Despite its importance, most change management projects fail or only partly deliver on their promise, the missing link often being the conflict between boardroom strategic initiatives and the working process design of the company. Implementing Strategic Change shows that most of this conflict occurs during interfacing activity - the seemly small activities such as chasing, following up and seeking permission to proceed that help drive a process forward can make up to 80% of many employees workload. This book will show that business strategy and change implementation rely on deep and close process knowledge and help develop the framework for understanding and improving these activities in any organization.

Real Time Strategic Change

Real Time Strategic Change
Author: Robert W. Jacobs
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1997-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781576750308

With Real Time Strategic Change, Robert Jacobs advocats a complete redesign of the way organisations change, and provides a practical guide through the entire change process.

Managing Strategic Change

Managing Strategic Change
Author: Noel M. Tichy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1983-05-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471865599

Shows how managers can use the conceptual framework of TPC theory (technical, political, and cultural dynamics) to cope with major strategic reorientation. Raises such fundamental questions about the nature of organizations. What business(es) should we be in? Who should reap what benefits from the organization? What are the values and norms of organizational members? Provides concepts and workable technologies for dealing with these questions and preparing for future change. Includes extensive examples.

Creating Strategic Change

Creating Strategic Change
Author: William A. Pasmore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1994-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471597292

Pasmore has brought over 20 year's worth of expertise to thisconceptually sophisticated yet practical guide concerned withorganization design and change. Concentrates on implementation andhow organizational planning and transformation efforts can improveperformance productivity. Features extensive cases and examplesdeveloped by the author from his consulting work at enterpriseslike Proctor & Gamble, TRW, Goodyear, General Foods and othercompanies.

From Strategy to Change

From Strategy to Change
Author: Daniel James Rowley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780787959975

In From Strategy to Change-the last in a series-Daniel James Rowley comes full circle in defining his unique vision of the strategic planning process. Written with Herbert Sherman, From Strategy to Change shows how to take the next step after a strategic plan has been formulated. The authors clearly show how to implement a strategic plan that will meet the myriad challenges of today's complex higher education environment and spell success for the academy."It is amazing that while sports teams of colleges and universities meticulously plan their contests against their opponents, their institutions' administrators don't spend nearly enough time or effort in creating andimplementing a strategy. Institutions of higher education seem to be missing the requisite tools to develop and activate their 'play book.' With this new age of globally available real-time information, it becomes increasingly more essential to have a map to help go over and around obstacles, avoid the ever-present pitfalls, and effectively aid in selecting the best route. Rowley and Sherman provide such tools in this exciting and comprehensive new book. I wish that when I was a department chair, president of a faculty senate, and dean that this superb work was available. My function in planning would have been so much easier and more rewarding."--Barry R. Armandi, Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY - Old Westbury

Leading Change

Leading Change
Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422186431

From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.

Strategic Change

Strategic Change
Author: Colin A. Carnall
Publisher: Digital Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Business planning
ISBN: 9780750619325

Managing major or strategic change now demands the ability to visualise the future, to see what might happen, and to estimate how the organization might respond. Through a selection of key articles on strategic change from authors such as Senge, Handy, Argyris and Prahalad and Doz, Carnall examines how we can understand the process of change and how we can use this knowledge to create the future. These articles look at: *networked organizations *market induced changes for internal and external markets *culture change *learning organization *globalisation This book also includes new material on how to create programmes of change to maximise learning as well as topical approaches such as process re-engineering, time-based management and corporate bench-marking. Students on MBA and other post-graduate business courses, and practitioners in the field of strategic change will find this book essential reading. Colin Carnall is Professor of Management Studies and Director of Programmes at Henley Management College. Top-flight editor from one of the best British Business Schools Includes articles from leading authors -Senge, Handy, Argyris and Prahalad and Doz to name a few Includes new material on how to create programmes of change to maximise learning

Leading and Implementing Business Change Management

Leading and Implementing Business Change Management
Author: David J. Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135106207

Being change capable is the "new normal" for today’s growth-minded organizations. The "do more with less" strategies of the past are no longer effective in preparing organizations to meet the increasing challenges for growth, competitiveness and innovation required of them in this new era. Business change challenges including customer and market shifts, legal and regulatory requirements, strategic redirection, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and cultural transformation are demanding that organizations effectively and efficiently manage change across multiple dimensions. To reach this level of change capability, organizations must adopt an integrated, balanced and customized approach to change management. Change management is addressed from the unique perspective of both its foundational concepts as well as practical application. Using an integrated, scalable and flexible framework, this book provides tools which can be readily customized and applied to initiatives across or within stages of the business change management lifecycle, from assessing the need for change, through planning the change initiative, designing a balanced change solution which integrates the people, process, and project management elements, through deploying and institutionalizing the change. Common risks associated with failed or stalled change initiatives are presented with best practices and key topics associated with change management are explored and illustrated through real-life case studies. Aimed at both the professionals within organizations and post graduate students and researchers within business strategy, organizational behaviour and change management disciplines, this book will provide a conceptual understanding of change management and a roadmap with a supporting toolbox for leading and implementing change that sticks.