Most of the 50 largest organizations in Finland have undertaken business process re‐engineering (BPR) projects during the last five years. This study concentrated on business process re‐engineering projects in 21 large Finnish organizations. Of the 21 organizations interviewed, six represent...

Looks at the benefits of embedding a risk management capability across a whole enterprise. Gives particular consideration to the creation of such a culture, outlining four factors characterizing this environment. Covers three key risk areas, and provides a model of the governance structure and...

Purpose – Sometimes when business is very good, it gets in the way of actualizing a planned strategy. This knocks a company's vision way off base and keeps company personnel from ever getting back to it. This article explores how to keep doing business but not at the expense of your vision and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a model for measuring enterprise architecture (EA) readiness in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the literature of enterprise architecture, defines and extracts factors and indicators of enterprise architecture...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine Igor Ansoff's research on environmental turbulence and to extend the paradigm. Design/methodology/approach – Ansoff's contribution was examined and applied to a variety of situations. The scale as designed did not capture certain strategic surprises....

This paper builds upon work already completed by the authors on the nature of the link between internal communication and the successful implementation of change management programmes in Northern Ireland companies. During 1999 and 2000 the theoretical foundation in the requisite areas of this...

Change in the leadership of an organization comes from the edges of an organization in which organizational players are engaged in a struggle with uninspired core leaders. Revolutionary transformations and inspired leadership occur at precise times and places within an organization. This article...

Presents a case study of a new approach to collective storytelling in companies using a highly participative approach in order to create believable and authentic corporate films. An Australian company in the process industry had undergone a large‐scale organizational change project; in order...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for the study of communication during organisational change. Although there is an enduring interest in studying (internal) communication during organisational change, there is still little or no empirical research on the...

Purpose – While the corporate rebranding momentum is accelerating, corporate decisions are not currently informed by strong theory and academic research in this area. To broaden the understanding, the purpose of this paper is to generate empirical insights into the key pitfalls in the...