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Why Organizational
Innovation and Change?
Innovation is not limited to new technologies,
products and services. The organization structure is an integral part of the
innovation process.
Success in business
doesn't come from feeling comfortable. In
today's technology-driven world, business life cycles have accelerated
exponentially. The challenge is to keep a step ahead of changing market
conditions, new technologies and human resources issues.
 Yin-Yang
of Change Management
What is Organizational
Innovation?
Organizational innovation reflects the
recognition that new ways of organizing work in areas such as work-force
management (such as
employee empowerment,
new people partnership,
or positive action to involve all employees in order to make work
organization a collective resource for innovation),
knowledge management, value chain
management,
customer partnership, distribution,
finance, manufacturing, etc. can improve your competitiveness.
MegaChange – an
Organizational Transformation
MegaChange3 is a total systemwide
cultural transformation of your organization. It means designing and
transforming organizations based on assumptions of human capability rather
than limitations using the tools of the modern
resource-based management
model...
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Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements
Leadership
(Fire):
The Wheel of Business
Evolution
The wheel of business evolution is a framework
and a set of tools which enables you to manage the complex process of
organizational change and transformation more effectively. The sequence of
the eight segments – business
environment,
business ecosystem, business
design, leadership style,
organizational values,
management process, knowledge management
systems, and performance measures
– reflects the learning cycle that occurs when outside-in or bottom-up
learning takes place...
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Viewing Your Business with
an Outsider's Eyes
It is hard for your people
to see the flaws and weaknesses in your organization and processes. They
grown up in this culture and they might have developed a 'this is how we do
things here' attitude – resistant to change
and disruptive ideas. Some fresh blood in your management team will help you
to see new
ways to do things. When you recruit, do not just look for people who
will 'fit in' and conform to your corporate mould. Look for people who are
different,
can dare to
challenge the status quo and bring some
outside-the-box views into your organization.7
Behavioral Change
The challenge and the shape of an
organization's
behavioral change program depends on
the
corporate
culture and the targeted
behaviors that need to be changed. Your
change program needs to be explicitly
built around these challenges. "Very often, these programs involve the
creation of incentives which
elegantly reinforce the desired behavior (and therein reinforce the change
loop in the learning dynamic)."1
Case
Study
Jack Welch
Jack Welch
has been with the General Electric Company (GE)
since 1960. Having taken GE with a market capitalization of about $12
billion,
Jack
Welch turned it into one of the largest and most admired companies in
the world, with a market value of about $500 billion, when he stepped down
as its CEO 20 years later, in 2000. Although Jack Welch is "the celebrated
leader of a global manufacturer often noted for its technological
prowess, he has utilized a very human process to
drive change
through GE's vast organization. Having respect for the individual as a
pivotal force in
organizational change, Welch created a model of exceptional performance
every
corporate leader
can learn from...
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25 Lessons from Jack Welch
Adaptive Organization
In today's world characterized by rapid
unpredictable change and volatility, the sustainable ability to change is
much more important than the ability to create change in the first place.
The ability to change can be achieved by building an
adaptive organization and synergizing
systemically such
corporate capabilities
as strategy innovation,
extreme leadership, and
enterprise-wide business process management...
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Innovation System
The Innovation System6
model synthesizes and defines the core elements of
innovation,
their behavior and interaction. The power of this good model makes it easier
to understand complex issues and dynamics of innovation, separate its
elements and examine them is greater depth. It establishes a framework that
helps you to demystify the innovation process and its driving forces, to
reveal the unique innovation practices of market champions and understand
what makes them so successful and unique...
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Process-managed Enterprise
New enterprise-wide approach to business process
management (BPM) removes many of the obstacles blocking execution of
management intent. BPM makes it for companies to manage their business
processes with great agility and stay laser focused on the organizational
dimension of business innovation.5...
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Case
Study
Organizational Structures in Silicon Valley
In contrast to traditional firms
where organizational structure defines the framework within which work
occurs, Silicon Valley firms use the work to define organization's
structure. These structures are best described as flat, flexible, permeable,
and fluid...
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