Managing Innovation and Change
At some point all organisations will face change. These changes may be moderately small, or they may impact significantly across the organisation. They may be as a result of internal developments example of this can be expanding their work staff or changes can be through external developments which can be through the environment or the economy changing which leads the organisations to react to it. The quote stated by (Senior and Fleming) “While the primary stimulus for change in organisations remains those forces in the external environment, the primary motivator for how change is accomplished resides with the people in the organisation” (Senior and Fleming, 2006, p.348). This explains both factors internally and externally are important to consider if you want to manage change effectively in an organisation.
There are different types of changes such as 'Grundys' which consists of smooth incremental, bumpy incremental and discontinuous. Grundy’s different types of changes which shows different pattern of lines on a graph showing what type of change is occurring is a useful tool for the organisations to asses and can decide whether it should change or not. The smooth incremental line the organisations are able to predict where it is heading due to the slow pace and not much movement as mostly its heading the same direction. The bumpy incremental line which is relative equilibrium interspersed with accelerated pace of change. The final line which is discontinuous involves rapid movements in strategy, structure and culture.
Future planning can be taken by organisations by dealing with the external environment by using tools such as PESTEL analysis which examines the organisation by critical factors which are political, economic, sociological, technological, environmental and legal. Using strategic tools such as PESTEL analysis, company