Integrated Strategic Change: How Organizational Development Builds Competitive Advantage (Pearson Organizational Development Series) / Edition 1

by Christopher Worley, David Hitchin, Walter Ross

Overview

In Integrated Strategic Change, Chris Worley, David Hitchin, and Walter Ross describe a process model of change that leads organizations through strategic analysis, strategy making, and the development and implementation of a strategic change plan. By integrating the process orientation of OD with the content orientation of strategy, an organizational capability is produced that helps organizations understand when and how to make fundamental strategic change. The book is written for human resource executives, strategic planners, and line managers interested in improving the quality of strategic implementation. It can also serve as a supplemental text for business strategy courses that wish to emphasize process approaches to strategy or strategic change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780201857771
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	08/14/1995
Series:	Organized Development Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

1. Organization Development, Strategic Change, and Industrial Competitiveness.


2. The Integrated Strategic Change Model.


3. Performing a Strategic Analysis: The VIIP Process.


4. Strategic Analysis: Diagnosing Strategic Orientation.


5. The Process of Strategy Making: Visioning and Choice.


6. Strategy Making: Designing a Strategic Orientation.


7. Developing the Strategic Change Plan.


8. Implementing the Strategic Change Plan.


9. ISC as a Competitive Advantage.

Editorial Reviews

Integrating the process orientation of Organizational Development with the content orientation of strategy, the authors present a model of change and show how organizations can learn when and how to make fundamental strategic changes. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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