http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress Organizational Change and Business Communication Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en man. utd. silences internal opposition - never a good idea for a company, we need to be challenged http://bit.ly/8Ypqhd # http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-21/ One of the most famous theorists of organizational change is John Kotter, of Harvard University. Last year he published  "A Sense of Urgency", which is reviewed here in the Financial Times.The review quotes from this new book: “Change is shifting from episodic to continuous. With episodic change, the challenge of creating ... http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/checklist-for-organizational-change/ can pharma firms advertise on twitter? is 140 characters enough to mention risks? Need to include a link+really.. http://tinyurl.com/yd7q7k9 # http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-14/ The organizational change management field is comparatively new. It has really only been in existence for the last 50 years or so. This excerpt from an academic article I wrote discusses the origins of the field. There is an enormous amount of academic literature and an enormous amount of practitioner literature ... http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/organizational-change-where-is-it-from-part-1/ corporate social responsibility - not a concept private company Ineos understands. http://tinyurl.com/yemzfnx # change at AstraZeneca - 1,200 layoffs. Was there no alternative? http://tinyurl.com/yc562x3 # http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/ 41% of changes are successful? At least that is what IBM says. How do they know? They carried out a major survey of 1500 change leaders and produced a report, which you can get here. Among the highlights: Most CEOs consider themselves and their organizations to be executing change poorly Achieving project success ... http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/only-41-of-organizational-changes-are-successful/ #saveBBC6music - absolutely agree. the vast majority of music radio stations in UK and germany are appaling # bad management at portsmouth - the fans and non-footballing staff and young players suffer, not the big names - at http://bit.ly/9KR9pi # more on #GoldmanSachs and greece - it doesn't look all that ... http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-28/ One way to understand change is to consider it in terms of the motors, or general theories, that bring about change. Van de Ven and Poole's (1995) paper presents four ideal types of theory drawn from a wide range of disciplines which address the question of why organizations change: Life-cycle: immanent ... http://www.turris-consulting.de/wordpress/organizational-change-and-more-theory/