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Change management Or the art of evolving

Week 1

Change Mgt, 2017, ED2, Prof. Dr. P. Zamaros

This week:

Fundamental Qs Understanding change

Change and time Change and speed

Volitional & accidental change Change causality

Change and creativity Change and innovation


Asking the question “what is change?”

… elicits ideas as to the “being” of change

Asking the question “what does change do”

… elicits ideas as to the “doing” of change, i.e. its consequences


Fundamental Qs

Change is

the substitution of one single item by another Examples: • the use of digital technology instead of

analog • the use of cars rather than horses

the continuous set of alterations in the same thing

Examples: • transformation of raw materials to finished

products • the growth of a company such as Apple


Understanding change

In both cases there are two moments in time that can be ordered in 3 ways considering Mc Taggart’s concepts of time


Change and time

Exponential rate of transformation

Punctuated equilibrium model after Romanelli & Tushman


Change and speed

Considering Mc Taggart’s series B: The path from then to now is • Accidental if non-volitional • Processual is volitional and controlled Following Aristotelis, for change to occur accidentally or processually there must be • Potency, i.e. the potential for change, and a • Cause, either internal/intrinsic or external/extrinsic Whether change is intentional or accidental is a matter of volition and circumstance

Moment 1 Moment 2

Then Now

Now After


Volitional and accidental change

Change as intentional is based on concepts of free-will Change as accidental is premised on concepts of determinism


Volitional and accidental change – cont.

Change as a cause brings about • New values • New ideas • New feelings • New ways of doing

It is thus

• either welcomed or • greeted with disdain


Change causality

Change is synonymous with creativity – the generation of ideas towards solving problems


Change and creativity

Psychometrics


Change, creativity and innovation – cont.

Processes


Change and creativity – cont.

Change is synonymous with innovation – the utilisation of ideas towards solving problems


Change and innovation

Schumpeter


Change and innovation – cont.

Drucker



Rogers



Readings

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/ • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/change/ • http://www.neeley.tcu.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic_Departments/Ma

nagement/Breakdowns_in_Implementing_Models_of_Organization_Change.pdf

• http://www.change-management-coach.com/kurt_lewin.html • https://www.apubb.ro/wp-

content/uploads/2011/02/OD_Suport_de_curs_masterat.pdf

• Hayes: ch1, ch2 • Dawson & Andriopoulos: ch1, ch2, ch5


http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/change/

http://www.neeley.tcu.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic_Departments/Management/Breakdowns_in_Implementing_Models_of_Organization_Change.pdf



http://www.change-management-coach.com/kurt_lewin.html





https://www.apubb.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/OD_Suport_de_curs_masterat.pdf




CASE STUDIES As per the syllabus


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