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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

People are less likely to resist any recommendations for dramatic change in their area of the business, if it comes in an objective, non-threatening way. All that is left to do is develop the plans for the projects that are needed to actualize the new workflow and institute a process for continual change.

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What Is HR’s Role in Change Management?

HR Digest

Understanding the importance of change is the first step to understanding HR’s role in change management. Change is undoubtedly the only constant in the modern business landscape. The Harvard Business School blog explains that organizational change can be broadly categorized into two types: adaptive and transformational.

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Managing Creativity: Lessons from Pixar and Disney Animation

Harvard Business Review

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? Well, the underlying hardware and software tools are continually changing and their price points are changing. There are a lot of people that try to resist it, but the underlying economics will basically overpower the resistance.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard Business School professor David Garvin explains, “Culture is remarkably durable and resistant to change.” “The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.”