Implementing Strategic Change: Managing Processes and Interfaces to Develop a Highly Productive Organization by Danny Samson

by Danny Samson

One of the key success factors for any organization is effective strategic change to ensure adaptability and increase productivity. Despite its importance most change management projects fail or only partly deliver on their promise. The missing link is often the conflict between boardroom strategic initiatives and the working process design of the company.Implementing Strategic Change shows that most of this conflict occurs during interfacing activity- the seemly small activities that help drive a process forward and can make up to 80% of many employees workload. Examples of interfacing activities include tasks like chasing, following up, seeking permission to proceed.Based on an in-depth study of over 400 companies, the authors have developed a map of business processes from the bottom up and discovered that over 30% of work in most organizations is 'waste'. Implementing Strategic Change will show that business strategy and change implementation rely on deep and close process knowledge and help develop the framework for understanding and improving these activities in any organization.

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First published April 3, 2012