The only certainty today is uncertainty and the only constant is change. Rapid, relentless change in products, markets, technologies, business structures, and competitive arenas, is the new reality confronting companies and managers across the world. New products, processes, and even whole markets emerge, mutate, and disappear with an increasing frequency. Change today, therefore, needs to be viewed as a continuous, incessant and pervasive phenomenon, and managed accordingly. It can no longer be managed in terms of any one-time programme or project. To manage today, is to manage change. To manage change, is to manage today and tomorrow simultaneously.
The present volume delineates a new approach to, and style of managing change. It maps a spiral pathway for steering the enterprise through volatility and turbulence in terms of insights and capabilities. Capabilities, in turn, based on knowledge and skills, synergy and momentum, vision and values. More specifically, the volume shows the what, why and how of:
· The mindset needed by today’s managers to prepare themselves for copying with the highly dynamic milieu of globalization of business and industry.
· The vision of a desired future for the enterprise embodying the shared meanings, values, and aspirations of both its leaders and people.
· The spectrum of crucial generic capabilities needed by the enterprise for copying with change, and shaping the future.
· The complementary and mutually reinforcing nature of the crucial generic capabilities
· The synergies and intangible moral factors involved in a company’s quest for long – term survival and success.
The conclusions reached in the book are insightful, any may even appear surprising. They are, however, firmly grounded in the abiding purpose and meaning of man and society.