Executing Your Business Transformation : How to Engage Sweeping Change Without Killing Yourself or Your Business

by Mark Morgan; Andrew Cole; Dave Johnson; Rob Johnson

• ISBN13: 9780470588413
• ISBN10: 0470588411
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Practical, tested, implementable real-world advice for transforming any business and is written by people that have "been there and done that".Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the reader to a more powerful position as an agent of change. Based on the authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformation, this book provides valuable guidance for any company engaged in large scale change brought on by shifts in the competitive landscape, mergers, acquisitions, or a major restructuring of their business model. Many organizations undergo transformation with lots of enthusiasm, but are frustrated with the results. This book contains a set of lessons gained in the process of working in and with organizations in the process of transformation. The book starts out by framing transformation and explains the overall system the enterprise that is involved in transformation. By doing so, clarity is brought to the question of why change is so difficult and problematic. What you can expect to get by reading this book is: A way of looking at transformation that is comprehensive and yet manageable without all the buzzword bingo terminology 11 critical lessons taken from the author's broad experience on a broad range of topics that you can leverage in your situation To get some thought provoking insight from 10 key questions for each lesson that you can use to apply the lessons to your organization A comprehensive framework for leading transformation that will challenge your thinking and provide a path forward to taking immediate actionWith rare insight and candor, the authors provide thoughtful advice backed by examples from their comprehensive experience. If you don't like transformation, you are going to hate irrelevance. This book is your best bet for getting the insight you need to transform your organization before it becomes irrelevant.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The transformation challenge

Once Upon a Time In Transformation

Profiles of selected companies in transformation

What Got You Here May Kill You There

Letting go of legacy success in order to prosper in the future

Yesterday's Leadership Skills May Prevent Tomorrow's Success

Aligning leadership with transformation

There Is No Strategy If Nobody Knows What to Do

Translating strategy into action moving forward

Transforming Strategy Requires More Than Expensive Software

How to keep from being a fool with a tool

Transform Human Resources into a Strategic Advantage

How to engage HR at a strategic level

Your Customers Are Always Right, Except When They Aren't

Doing what is right for customers even when it is not what they asked for

Don't Let Analysts Run Your Business

Pleasing the street is not always what it's cracked up to be

Merger Is Not a Four-Letter Word

How to reduce the risk of value loss in merging companies

Who Melted My Cheese?

How to deal with the mixture of two different recipes for success

Spin Is Overrated for Creating Value

Replacing rhetoric with real communication

Consultants Are Not an Excuse for Not Knowing Your Business

How to engage professional services for maximum return

Conclusion

Next steps in creating better models and methods to transform organizations

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Index

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