Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trendsin business: ''design thinking,'' or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind- set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, unpack the mysterious connection beetwen design and growth, and teach managers ina straightforward way ho…
The literature on corporate responsibility (CR) increasingly recognizes the importance of leadership in support of organizational change. This is particularly the case when CR provides the basis for the business contribution to sustainable development, which is understood to involve organizational and social innovation leading to change. The paper draws on theoretical and empirical studies to e…
Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide.Now, in A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shines the spo…
Every day outstanding organizations do things and promote values that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. People in these organizations hold values and take actions-- individually and collectively--that are not always easy or obvious but are fundamentally powerful.
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t’s a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does—but not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift back to the default status.Why is this scenario so frequently repeated in indust…
Somehow we’ve come to believe that creativity is reserved for the chosen few: the poets, the painters, the writers. The truth is creativity is in all of us and re-discovering it is the key to unlocking your fullest potential. is a book that pushes us beyond our traditional thought patterns. Unthink is a book that will inspire everyone to realize that we are capable of so much more than w…
Managing change is a vital skill in any forward-thinking organization. 10 Steps to Successful Change Management outlines a 10 step approach to handle any type of change. This book will help you understand why change happens, assess the different impact scenarios, assemble the right change management team, put a strategy in place, measure success, and more.
The purpose of this article is to ascertain how the forces of globalization affect current organizational designs, particularly the relationship between rapid technological change, global uncertainty, and careless organizational decision-making.
The purpose of this study is to attempt to analyze how the distance of analogies used during the strategy formulation process is a critical driver used to explain the different scopes of implemented changes
Purpose – This paper aims to determine what leader-leading competencies enable management of turbulent, uncertain change and what principles from a complex adaptive systems perspective constitute it. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a qualitative research case study. Findings – It is found that there are three leading-ship competencies: administrative, adaptive and enabling. Ori…
Effective engineering asset management is essential in delivering public services safely whilst avoiding breakdowns and accidents. The purpose of this paper is to ensure asset safety and sustainability, public sector firms have to adopt new processes and practices. It is the role of supervisors to implement the changes, and as part of the new publicmanagement (NPM) public sector reforms, publi…
Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter’s ideas on change management and leadership. From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recession—we’ve learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It’s the rule. Now with a new preface, this refreshed edition of the global bestseller Leading Change…
Perspectives on Human Capital and Assets goes beyond the current literature by providing a platform for a broad scope of discussion regarding HC&A, and, more importantly, by encouraging a multidisciplinary fusion between diverse disciplines.
This paper aims to summarise the scope, methodology and main findings of a doctoral thesis about business transformation in Latin America taken from a project management (PM) and communities of practice (CoP) perspective.
This article draws attention to the how of logistics management or logistics as part of the learning organization. The logistics discipline has advanced over the years, but these advances have been mainly on the what side, what could be done rather than how it is done. In a world of increasing opportunities, the restraining factor is increasingly how. New product and market strategies depend up…
When implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, top management commonly faces an unwanted attitude from potential users ± for one reason or another, they resist the implementation process. Top management should, therefore, proactively deal with this problem instead of reactively confronting it. In this paper, I describe an integrated, processorien tedapproach for facing the c…
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how performance measurement systems (PMSs) can be used to support the key elements of the logistics change process.
This paper aims to examine the role of intellectual capital (IC) management in an organizational change process. The purpose is to obtain new empirical findings and an enhanced understanding of the role of IC in an organizational change process is obtained.
Drawing on the experience gained from the recent turnaround of fortunes at The CERT Group, describes the key role of customer service and the challenges associated with establishing a service culture in one of the UK's leading third party logistics providers. The process was so successful that the company branded it success with service'', thereby helping internal staff buy into the company's m…
Predicts that in the decade ahead, the purchasing function will have to shed its service and operational perspective and take on the challenge of effective contribution to organizational goals and strategies. Describes how, in this evolution, the make or buy decision and increasing reliance on outsourcing will change the purchasing manager into a manager of integrated operations
28 tokoh hebat dalam buku ini bukan hanya kaya, terkenal, ataupun sukses. Mereka juaga merupakan orang-orang yang secara signifikan mengubah peta bisnis dunia. Beberapa di antara mereka melakukan karena ingin mengubah dunia menjadi lebih baik, beberapa karena termotivasi uang dan kekuasaan. Sebagian memang berontak cemerlang atau kaya raya, tetapi ada juga yang berhasil karena memiliki insting …
In this important book, successful organizations including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations s…
The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals. According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting with people’s emotions is what will spark the behavior change and actions that lead to …
(Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder) teaches organization development and organization design in the program in organizational and professional communication at the University of Denver. He is a practicing organization development consultant and has consulted internally and externally to a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, and educationa…