In today’s fast-paced and global community, most organizations are
faced with constant change. Research contemporary organizations that are
currently responding to a significant change within the industry, such
as disruptive technology; state, government, or industry regulations;
environmental constraints; judicial or legislative rulings; etc.
Choose
one organization from your research that has recently responded to
major change, or is currently responding to change. Write a paper
(1,250-1,500 words) discussing how well the organization is responding
to the change dynamics. Include the following:
Describe the organization and the change to which it is responding.
Discuss
the degree to which the change has been disruptive and how the
organization has responded to the dynamics created by this change.
Evaluate
the strategies the organization used in its change plan and determine
the level of success the organization experienced with the strategies.
Determine
the effect the change had on stakeholders, and to what degree
stakeholders have resisted. Assess how well stakeholder resistance was
addressed.
Evaluate the overall implications the change had on interdepartmental collaboration.
In
your opinion, how well did the leaders of the organization respond and
prepare for the change? What worked and what did not work with the
strategies they implemented?
What modifications would you
suggest the leaders of the organization make in order to better address
the change dynamics? What additional strategies would you recommend to
assist the organization through this change?
This assignment is NOT to speak about general change or change in
general as that is too broad. Example, do not speak to disruptive
technology in general.
As such, I strongly recommend
you NOT write about Amazon. The reason being is that too many previous
students wrote about Amazon for this assignment, but with no specific
change in mind. They mistakenly wrote about Amazon in regard to online
shopping which has the effect of comparing Amazon’s impact on online
shopping to the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was not
a change initiative! Amazon’s societal influence on how consumers shop
is not a change initiative.
Instead for this
assignment, think more specifically about one specific change or
response a company needed, that took place over a finite period of time;
a change in response to a particular problem/challenge, and a solution
to resolving that problem that can/could be implemented within a
relative period of time (perhaps up to 18 months)