Action Management: Practical Strategies for Making Your Corporate Transformat...

Action Management: Practical Strategies for Making Your Corporate Transformation a Success by Stephen Redwood, Charles Goldwasser, Simon Street, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP This book is USED (not new) Condition: Good - DJ worn Format: Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc : , 1999, ISBN: 9780471345473 / 0471345474 Dimensions: 15.88cm x 2.54cm x 24.13cm, 247 pages SKU: 1909i - We use NZ Post overnight for delivery so please allow 1-5 days for delivery - If you would like to see more photos of the book, ask a question and we'll add them Book Description: Despite all the talk of change management, we somehow failed to recognize that we can't, in any meaningful sense, manage change. We can only manage our actions-hence action management. Action Management presents global experience from PricewaterhouseCoopers to help businesses devise and implement practical action strategies to cope with change and make their corporate transformations successful. Books that promise to help businesses manage change are making promises they can't keep. No one can manage or control business change. The key, instead, is to cope with change and seize the opportunity for success by managing business action. Authors Redwood, Goldwasser, and Street study successful action projects at industries ranging from high technology and financial services to petroleum and health care using an exclusive, in-depth survey conducted by MORI on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers covering 500 multinational businesses in 14 countries on four continents. Included here are the findings of the Global Action Survey for Nynex, Braun, British Airways Engineering, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, LSG/SkyChefs, and many more. Action Management identifies the top 10 challenges to action that companies face such as planning, allocating, leading, and mobilizing for corporate action. Each chapter meets these 10 challenges by offering a host of "Tips" to heed and "Learn by example" sections that demonstrate how comp...