Executing Your Business Transformation: How to Engage Sweeping Change Without Killing Yourself Or Your Business - Hardcover

Morgan, Mark; Cole, Andrew; Johnson, Dave; Johnson, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470474408 ISBN 13: 9780470474402

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2010

Synopsis

Practical, tested, implementable real-world advice for transforming any business and is written by people that have “been there and done that”.

Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the reader to a more powerful position as an agent of change. Based on the authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformation, this book provides valuable guidance for any company engaged in large scale change brought on by shifts in the competitive landscape, mergers, acquisitions, or a major restructuring of their business model. Many organizations undergo transformation with lots of enthusiasm, but are frustrated with the results. This book contains a set of lessons gained in the process of working in and with organizations in the process of transformation. The book starts out by framing transformation and explains the overall system the enterprise that is involved in transformation. By doing so, clarity is brought to the question of why change is so difficult and problematic. What you can expect to get by reading this book is:

• A way of looking at transformation that is comprehensive and yet manageable without all the buzzword bingo terminology
• 11 critical lessons taken from the author’s broad experience on a broad range of topics that you can leverage in your situation
• To get some thought provoking insight from 10 key questions for each lesson that you can use to apply the lessons to your organization
• A comprehensive framework for leading transformation that will challenge your thinking and provide a path forward to taking immediate action

With rare insight and candor, the authors provide thoughtful advice backed by examples from their comprehensive experience. If you don’t like transformation, you are going to hate irrelevance. This book is your best bet for getting the insight you need to transform your organization before it becomes irrelevant.

About this title

About the Author

MARK I. MORGAN is CEO of StratEx Advisors, Inc., and lead author of Executing Your Strategy. He has thirty-plus years of industry experience in business start-ups, business development, management, leadership, and project, program, and portfolio management.

ANDREW B. COLE is vice president of human resources at A123 Systems. He is former senior vice president and director of human resources at APC and senior vice president of human resources for the CPAC Division of Schneider Electric.

DAVID R. JOHNSON is senior vice president of home and business at APC. He also served as senior vice president of worldwide sales at APC where he led a team of more than 2,000 people.

ROBERT J. JOHNSON is vice president of enterprise solutions at A123 Systems and former CEO and president of North America for APC.

From the Back Cover

TODAY'S MARKETPLACE requires that businesses maintain excellent relationships with their customer base while offering a greater range of options—often combining services with traditional product offerings. While many organizations enthusiastically attempt to undergo transformations to accomplish this and other major changes, they are often frustrated with the results.

Executing Your Business Transformation provides valuable guidance for companies contemplating mergers, acquisitions, or major restructurings of their business models. This important resource is based on the expert authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformations and offers an illustrative set of lessons gained from the authors' wide range of experiences.

Some of the unorthodox and yet highly valuable lessons in the book include Your customers are always right, except when they aren't; What got you here may kill you there; There is no strategy if nobody knows what to do; Consultants are not an excuse for not knowing your business; Yesterday's leadership skills may prevent tomorrow's success; and Transforming strategy requires more than expensive software.

With keen insight and rare candor, Executing Your Business Transformation provides thoughtful advice to any leader who understands that the strengths of today's company will not translate into the results of tomorrow.

From the Inside Flap

TODAY'S MARKETPLACE requires that businesses maintain excellent relationships with their customer base while offering a greater range of options—often combining services with traditional product offerings. While many organizations enthusiastically attempt to undergo transformations to accomplish this and other major changes, they are often frustrated with the results.

Executing Your Business Transformation provides valuable guidance for companies contemplating mergers, acquisitions, or major restructurings of their business models. This important resource is based on the expert authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformations and offers an illustrative set of lessons gained from the authors' wide range of experiences.

Some of the unorthodox and yet highly valuable lessons in the book include Your customers are always right, except when they aren't; What got you here may kill you there; There is no strategy if nobody knows what to do; Consultants are not an excuse for not knowing your business; Yesterday's leadership skills may prevent tomorrow's success; and Transforming strategy requires more than expensive software.

With keen insight and rare candor, Executing Your Business Transformation provides thoughtful advice to any leader who understands that the strengths of today's company will not translate into the results of tomorrow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470474408
• ISBN 13: 9780470474402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288