Nov 14
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You may have been selected by your executive to initiate and see through some change program in your organization. Or you may have decided that the time has come to make your mark by dusting off the cobwebs in your workplace. However your change role came about, you have a challenging task ahead of you.
Consider this sobering thought. In spite of the importance of successfully implementing workplace change for maintaining your business’s competitiveness, most change initiatives fail to deliver the expected organizational benefits. This failure occurs for a number of reasons: Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 13
As a leader in your organization, do you add muda or subtract it?
Muda is a Japanese term for waste. One of the prime tenants of the Toyota production system, to which much of that company’s outstanding quality and profitability can be attributed, is to reduce muda. The organization is built on constant striving to identify and eliminate anything that does not add value for the final customer. The Toyota processes are now used worldwide, often called LEAN processing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aug 24
Tom O’Dea
Introduction
Dictionary.com defines behavior as observable activity in a human or animal; the aggregate of responses to internal and external stimuli.
Change management strategies generally focus on a combination of people, processes and technology. Ultimately the goal of a change strategy is to alter the behavior of an organization. Specifically, the leader seeks to change how the organization is responding to its customers, to the marketplace, to competition, to new technologies, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
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