Purpose – The aim of this paper is to offer practitioners the outline of a unique system to facilitate organizational renewal. Design/methodology/approach – The authors are veteran practitioners who have observed and studied best practices in a variety of corporate and governmental settings...

Purpose – Environmental uncertainty threatens many companies. This paper seeks to offer a strategic model to help imperiled firms overcome employee inertia, counter competitive forces, and speed organizational renewal. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a change model which...

Change is not a commodity. When it is considered as a discrete thing – which the author terms the “commodification of change” – with a particular brand identity, it becomes compartmentalized, finite, and tightly proscribed; it becomes a product. However, no change effort can afford such a...

To maximize the potential for the change to produce positive results, business leaders must appreciate the transformational stages, key interdependencies and interrelationships, and the impact they could have independently or in combination on eventual outcomes. This requires a thorough...

Purpose – When Ermenegildo Zegna's senior management team decided to transform the organization into a performance‐oriented culture, the decision was made to start with the HR function. The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges they met and how they were overcome....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of how our internal HR team overcame a number of hurdles and achieved 100 percent success in the transition of 85 targeted employees into Innovapost on a timeline that left barely five weeks from start to finish....

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to show how The Rockwool Group has undergone an impressive change journey in recent years. Under the leadership of its president and chief executive officer, Eelco van Heel, the business has successfully redefined its strategic objectives, clarified its...

Purpose – This case study feature sets out to describe how a global manufacturing business, TMD Friction, changed its organizational culture and became a much more successful business over a 12‐month period through the implementation of a change management program with people policies at its...