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Big Change: A Route-Map for Corporate Transformation Paperback - 1999

by Paul Taffinder

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Jahr fr Jahr geben Unternehmen Tausende von Dollar fr die Umsetzung von Neuerungen aus. Einige haben damit Erfolg - viele jedoch nicht. Hier ist die Neuauflage eines preisgekrnten Klassikers als Broschurausgabe! Top-Consultant Paul Taffinder (von Andersen Consulting) analysiert die Bemhungen von ber 30 Organisationen weltweit bei der Durchfhrung des "gro en Wandels". Er behauptet u.a., da die beabsichtigte Eskalation eines Konflikts sogar Innovationen verstrkt, zu qualtitativ hherwertigen Produkten und Dienstleistungen fhrt und das Engagement fr Vernderungen erhht. Anstze, die ein standardisiertes Konfliktmanagement vertreten, stellt er in Frage und spricht sich fr die Ausnutzung der psychosozialen und organisatorischen Vorteile aus, die durch Konflikte entstehen. Hierzu gehren z.B. Motivation, Verbesserung von gegenseitigem Verstndnis und Stimulierung eines Dringlichkeitsgefhls. Mit vielen praktischen Beispielen in Form von Anekdoten und Fallstudien sowie Interviews. (10/99)

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From the Foreword: "Big change often redries taking momentous decisions ... and these decisions cannot be enacted incrementally. You cannot leap a chasm in two bounds." In an awe-inspiring read, Paul Taffinder seizes and pulls apart many of the conventional, but uncritical assumptions, of change - myths such as building consensus, the need for leadership vision, and the importance of conflict reduction. In doing so, he looks in detail at both the successes and failures of firms such as:
* IBM
* Novartis
* Revenue Canada
* ABB
* PTT Post
* Symcor
* Siemens Plessey
* Molson Breweries
* British Airways
* Sears Roebuck
* NASA
* Reckitt & Colman
* Metallgesellschaft
* Defence Evaluation & Research Agency
* Microsoft
The lessons of Big Change are both startling and profound. If you have ever asked yourself the questions:
* how do I kickstart transformation?
* how do I clear a path through the corporate mess of projects, initiatives and business-as-usual?
* how do I identify market discontinuities and grasp the new business opportunities they offer?
* when do I build new organizational values?
* how do I re-start change programmes that have stalled?
* how do I master change?
then this book will give you the answers.

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  • Title Big Change: A Route-Map for Corporate Transformation
  • Author Paul Taffinder
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-02-02
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780471860600 / 0471860603
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 6.12 x 0.67 in (22.56 x 15.54 x 1.70 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-47617
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.406

About the author

Paul Taffinder is an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting. Formerly a director of Coopers & Lybrand until 1998, he joined Andersen Consulting to concentrate on helping clients with the leadership of complex change. Following a Master's degree and then PhD in organizational psychology - and what he describes as "a mercifully brief career in the mining industry" - he turned his attention to organizational research and consultancy, becoming passionately interested in the shape of corporations to come and the importance of the socio-psychological driving forces that underlie the world of business. His first book The New Leaders looked specifically at the role of leadership and change, an area in which he has years of in-depth experience consulting internationally. A provocative speaker at international conferences, he is emerging as one of the foremost thinkers on the psychology of organizational change, tenaciously challenging uncritical management orthodoxy, raising the ambition of business leaders, and is now the winner of the prestigious MCA prize. You can e-mail Paul Taffinder at: paul.a.taffinder@ac.com The Wiley web-site address is: www.wiley.co.uk

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