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Why Change Organisations? . Organisation out of step with changing environment, eg stakeholders, markets, etc.. . Emerging opportunities to enhance organisation’s strategic intent, eg takeover, merger, alliance, acquisition, etc . Desire to strengthen core competencies, ie what the organisation does best . Opportunities to expand core competencies, ie diversify, etc . Need to handle next organisational phase, eg life-cycle approach, S-curve, sigmoid curve, second curve or curvilinear logic Of the above reasons, the handling of the next organisational phase (life-cycle approach) is the least understood
Change management is not just affected globally by environmental and social conditions, including political and technological changes, but also through convergence, which helps conceptualize change over the past decades. The media industry, in particular, is being challenged by the rise of social media, the crisis of refinancing especially for quality news media, the ‘misinformation epidemic’, and the changing role of legacy media. The evolving nature of media usage and communication, the rise of produsage and influencers, and intermediaries and their personalized algorithmic content are also factors that impact the industry, along with data privacy and privacy management, and the “new...
Change Management - An Introductory Overview provides a practical approach to: • Explain the background to change management (including common management errors, trends, etc) • Look at the suitability of some frameworks used to handle organisational transition • Make explicit the ingredients in the framework required to achieve effective organisational transition, ie a road map to create a peak-performance, innovative, agile and robust organisation in a world of constant flux • Identify/explore some innovative and creative techniques that assist in successfully achieving organisational transition • Analyse you and your organisation’s current capability in meeting the change challenge • Anticipate and overcome the most common challenges in the organisational transition process • Address/explore the challenge of implanting the change process permanently in your organisation’s culture, such as behavioural changes • Highlight the importance of leadership, rather than management, in organisational transition • Identify the strategies available to facilitate empowerment and to reward others for follow-through on any change
Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Australia's Northern Territory is twice the size of Texas with a population less than one-tenth that of Houston. How could so vast a place be a setting for environmental abuse? American anthropologist Richard Symanski shows how the Outback's ecology has been drastically altered as Europeans, Aborigines, wild species, and introduced species make their impact on the land and on each other.
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