Stumpf Leading Business Change

A Practical Guide to Transforming Your Organization
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4987-2662-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 145 Seiten

Most books dealing with change management focus on how companies reach their corporate goals, instead of on what individual leaders must do. Filling this need, Leading Business Change: A Practical Guide to Transforming Your Organization is an easy and fun read that will inspire you to think more closely about how you implement change as a leader.

The book presents a proven approach to help leaders of global initiatives grapple with impossible projects and deliver on their goals. The first part of the book explains the author’s approach to change management, centering on the need not just for an effective approach but for effective leadership. The remaining three parts walk readers through the three phases of the authors' methodology, using actual examples to demonstrate how to apply each step in the real world.

- Introduces the topic of strategic implementation and organizational change

- Supplies an overview of the challenges a leader will face when tasked with transforming aspects of a global company

- Discusses the need to align the goals of the company, sponsors, and project

- Highlights the need to understand the resources available to change leaders

- Addresses the challenges of planning the design and delivery of organizational change

The author begins each chapter with a short story around the experiences of a fictional executive with a multinational company who has been tasked with implementing a global outsourcing project. Different stories illustrate the application of the methodologies discussed in the book. Each chapter concludes with questions to help you assess your own leadership style.

Zielgruppe

Multinational executives and managers faced with implementing organizational changes, such as downsizing, outsourcing, merging, or entering new markets, including CEOs and senior executives, business managers and middle managers; operational managers, program managers, and business analysts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stumpf, Karin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Qualitätsmanagement, Qualitätssicherung (QS), Total Quality Management (TQM)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Leading the Journey to Success
What Is the Determining Factor in Successfully Turning Strategy into Reality?
The Process of Success
The Number-One Challenge
Three Phases, Four Questions
Nothing Ever Goes According to Plan

The Captain for the Journey
Modelling the Role
Motivating Other People
Mediating Resistance
Shaping the Change
Communicating the Change
Embracing Your Role as a Change Leader

PHASE I MOBILIZE—ENVISIONING THE SOLUTION

Determining the Destination
Who Are the Decision Makers?
Clarifying the Strategic Objective
Identifying Stakeholder Groups
Taking Stock of Ship and Crew
Assembling Your Coalition
Inventorying Available Skill Sets
Assessing the Current Situation
Challenge Questions

Setting the Course
Identifying Possible Plans
Building on Your Strengths
Seeing and Filling the Gaps
Challenge Questions

PHASE II CRUSADE—DESIGNING THE SOLUTION

Embarking on the Journey
Designing the Change
Be Ready to Adapt Your Plan
Shoring Up Your Original Support
Converting Others into Your Evangelists
Challenge Questions

Captaining, Despite Shortages and Scurvy
Managing Project People
Modelling the Change
Motivating the Change
Shaping the Change
Mediating the Change
Communicating the Change
Challenge Questions

Surviving the Tempests
Contingency Planning
Expecting the Worst
Asking the Big Question Again
Remaining Agile
Asking for Help
Challenge Questions

PHASE III POPULATE—DELIVERING THE SOLUTION

Land Ho!
The Biggest Challenges in Populating
100% Buy-In?
Success Hinges on Communication
Knowing You Have Arrived
Measuring Success
Shades of Success
Challenge Questions

Captain’s Log
The Importance of Reflecting
Taking Personal Inventory
The End as the Beginning

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Karin Stumpf consults for multinational companies implementing strategic change, such as DaimlerChrysler, Universal Pictures, Deutsche Bank, Bombardier Transportation, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Formerly a consultant with McKinsey as well as Deloitte, she has worked with clients in more than 20 countries to successfully support them in driving corporate strategy.

Dr. Stumpf regularly lectures in English, German, and French in venues such as the Swiss Institute of Technology, among others. She holds an MSc, an MBA, a PhD, and a master’s in organizational psychology. Her consultancy, Acrasio, is based in Berlin, where she lives with her husband and daughter.