Key Theme: Change
New regulations and technologies, fiercer competition and rapidly shifting markets, innovation and rising customer expectations are just some of the drivers that are forcing companies to adapt constantly. Today, the need for corporate agility has made change management a strategic capability. As a result, the need to develop this at every level of the organisation has become a high priority. For HR, there are many implications, not least for selection, recruitment and personal development. Discover how to manage change and develop skills that enable organisations to become agile and responsive in a period of never-ceasing change.
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Reuters Change Management case study
Faced with an unprecedented business crisis in 2001, Reuters launched a transformation programme that touched every aspect of its operations. This case study shows how it orchestrated and carried through its Fast Forward programme - the people and cultural part of the change initiative - in the process of turning around its fortunes and regaining its competitive position. (6171 words) |
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Communicating Major Change
For the most part, internal communication professionals communicate change. However, they are most likely to be judged according to how well they perform during high-profile change events such as mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and cultural realignments. (8743 words) |
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Culture and Change Management - Exclusive Research
What Business Intelligence's 'Culture and Change Management' survey reveals about best practice, ineffective cultures, based on responses from 236 organizations, 159 from Europe and 79 from USA/Rest of the World. Almost 12 per cent of respondents claimed they had an 'extremely well defined' culture, and the same percentage claimed a 'very poorly defined' culture. Tellingly, the former group were invariably more effective and successful organizations. (6170 words) |
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Culture and People Issues
Setting up a shared services facility is an exercise in change management, and an important aspect of this is to communicate and consult with its key stakeholders. Most important of these are staff - those that will stay, those that will move and those that will go. (6442 words) |
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Corporate Culture - The Key to Successful Business Transformation
The hard evidence of the decisive impact of corporate culture on business success. A summary of research findings from Business Intelligence and other US and UK sources - plus examples from Blugari, KFC, Inland Revenue and input from leading consultancies and academics. (7037 words) |
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Implementing & Driving Culture Change - Tools and Frameworks
Advice on the best tools, methods and frameworks to drive through culture change - including the use of pilot programmes, change agents, performance measurement systems and Balanced Scorecard projects. Examples from BT Northern Ireland, Siemens KWU, Transco and Anglian Water Services. (10455 words) |
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