Change Power: Capabilities That Drive Corporate Renewal

What does it really take to achieve effective change? Change Power identifies the key areas for action, illustrates the kinds of action needed, and describes the personal and corporate capabilities that underlie successful corporate change in virtually all situations. It will help you understand why managing an organisation through change requires actions and capabilities beyond those needed for high organisational performance today. Change Power provides a powerful framework for action based on detailed quantitative analysis of 243 cases of corporate change. The framework is practical because it provides the basis for action by managers in their own circumstances. It is powerful because the evidence that it works in both private and public sectors is compelling. Change Power provides the basis for organisational transformation required for sustained high performance. It uses numerous examples to show the relevance of its central concepts in the real world faced by managers. And it demonstrates an action planning process to manage change effectively. Change Power is the outcome of six years of research by Dennis Turner and Michael Crawford. Dennis Turner, a Professor of Management, combines senior and chief executive experience in retailing, manufacturing and the public sector with teaching and research activity at the University of New South Wales. Dr Michael Crawford combines high academic achievement with running his own consulting business. Just as the authors blend scholarship with management experience so does Change Power.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Preface About the authors Introduction 1 A framework for change 2 A story of capabilities and action 3 Faith or facts? The survey findings 4 The importance of organisational states 5 Engagement 6 Development 7 Performance Management 8 Reshaping capabilities: a consolidation 9 Operational capabilities 10 Building and embedding competencies 11 Planning for action Epilogue: Your leadership of change Appendix A: The competencies in the survey Appendix B: The organisations in the survey Endnotes Index Access Change Power on the Internet

About the Author :
Dennis Turner is Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management in the University of New South Wales. Dennis combines his academic work in teaching and research with substantial earlier experience in chief executive and senior management roles in both the private and public sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom. Dr Michael Crawford is principal of Corex Pty Ltd, a consulting firm specialising in corporate strategy and the management of strategic change. Michael combines academic achievement in science and management with experience in information technology, systems analysis and management.