Changing and Surviving in Business
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Business Change is normal. You can change or be changed. Stand still in business and you reduce your chances of survival.
However Change is a complex subject and if you wish to create a change ready organization there are complex activities that must mesh together in a balanced way to ensure success.
The approach is with an emphasis on easy readability for the busy executive.
Thomas Kennedy
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Changing and Surviving in Business - Thomas Kennedy
Changing and Surviving in Business
A Practitioner’s Guide
By Thomas Kennedy B.Comm. FCA
The author:
Tom Kennedy is a Chartered Accountant with over thirty years in business and has extensive experience in Finance and in Human Resources including Change Programme Design and Delivery. In designing Change Programmes he has also studied the subject widely and made site visits to understand other approaches and has undertaken benchmarking studies.
This book encapsulates knowledge and understanding around the Business Change Process that has accumulated over extensive years as a practitioner.
Other works by the same author:
Targeting Performance
Available on line
Copyright 2009 Thomas Kennedy – all rights reserved
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DEDICATION
For Pat Connell whose energy, optimism and commitment to change I greatly admire. Pat and I did the Change Team work on ‘Plan 2000’ for the huge Guinness Brewery in Dublin. We had a great adventure.
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OVERVIEW
Business Change is normal. You can change or be changed. Stand still in business and you reduce your chances of survival.
However Change is a complex subject and if you wish to create a change ready organization there are complex activities that must mesh together in a balanced way to ensure success.
The approach of this book, with an emphasis on easy readability for the busy executive, is to set out the problem in a series of easy to read and remember grids. Each Grid is followed by further narrative on the topic represented by the grid.
The guide gives a comprehensive ‘to do’ list set out in grids
The Grids are:
THE OVERVIEW
THE MARKET DRIVEN ORGANIZATION
LEADERSHIP
STRATEGIC INNOVATION
FINANCIAL JUSTIFICATION
DETAILED PLANNING
RELENTLESS COMMUNICATION
NEGOTIATION
ACROSS BOUNDARY MANAGEMENT
COMPETITIVE TIME FRAME
Followed by: SUMMARY AND FEW LINERS
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GRID ONE
THE OVERVIEW
STRATEGIC INNOVATION
LEADERSHIP
RELENTLESS COMMUNICATION
FINANCIAL JUSTIFICATION
MARKET DRIVEN ORGANIZATION
COMPETITIVE TIMEFRAME
DETAILED PLANNING
NEGOTIATION
I am adopting a working assumption that you, the reader, are prepared to stand in the future and are prepared to describe in a few sentences of ordinary every day language how you think your company should look and feel when it arrives at the end of the next stage of its business change journey. Of course experience will show you that rather like climbing an endless mountain, every ridge you climb over will reveal further heights to climb. But don’t worry you can do it, and change is a journey not a destination.
Ask yourself. Would I hire me myself as the person to undertake this journey?
Be honest now. Don’t expect to have all the talents needed. Do be prepared to form alliances and team up with those who will assist on the journey. Remember a team can be stronger than the sum of all its parts.
This is not a very long Guide and I have tried to make every sentence count. So don’t rush it. Take time to reflect. Open the mind. All you need are a few powerful ideas. You can tailor the rest to the specific needs of your organization.
When do you make changes?
Is it when absolutely necessary, when the company is on the ropes and the wolf is at the door?
Yes of course, but when is the best time to institute changes?
The best time is when you are strong. When the profits are good and the outlook is fine. That’s the best time.
If you are up, then down may be just around the corner. When you are strong you have resources and resilience. The banks will listen to you. The parent company will listen because with your performance you will be one of their darlings of the hour.
Don’t wait for the future to come to you. Seize the moment. Continue to build and grow strong. Continue to plan and do try to stay about five years ahead of the curve.
If you are a unit within a multinational don’t wait for the initiatives to come down the line. There will be lots of programmes from the top. But within an organisation with International Sourcing and Globalisation there is no safe niche. The unit that awaits instructions from above will put its fate into very ruthless hands. Keep the initiative, strive to differentiate and to be perceived in the Group as leading edge and or as offering some unique something which puts your unit up there with the best in class.
Change is hard work. Be aware your company may become war weary with constant change. It is necessary to constantly reinvigorate the process to maintain the excitement.
Yes, excitement, it is exciting to be