Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements

Leadership (Fire):

Leaders create positive change and see change as an opportunity... More

Create an Effective Organizational Change System

• Develop an inspiring → vision of the desired future, a strategy to achieve it, and a change program. Set the milestones on the way to that desired future and communicate the strategic direction to the staff... More

Why Organizational Innovation and Change?

→ 9 Signs of a Losing Organization

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.

→ Why Change Fails: 8 Common Errors

→ Change Management: Yin-Yang Strategies 

Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Change

When choosing between evolutionary change and revolutionary action, you as a → leader must pursue a → balanced and pragmatic approach... More

What is Organizational Innovation?

Organizational innovation reflects the recognition that new ways of organizing work in areas such as work-force management, knowledge management, value chain management, customer partnership, distribution, finance, manufacturing, etc. can improve your competitiveness.

→ Winning Organization: Yin-Yang Balance

According to William E. Joyce, MegaChange 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... More

→ 25 Lessons from Jack Welch 

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... More 

View 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.³

Behavioral Change

"Why this reluctance to make the change?
We fear the process of reeducation." ~ Isaac Asimov