Greeting Cards – How to create your own Problem solving Environment

More than any other situation Change is about cooperation and collaboration. No matter if your company is in serious trouble or just wants to find a new way to line itself up – it always needs people to initiate, moderate, steer, coordinate and live that Change. So what? The problem is that often people simply don´t know how to cooperate. Of course people cooperate on a daily … More Greeting Cards – How to create your own Problem solving Environment

Managing Organizational Culture Change: The Case of Long-Term Care

Abstract Recent research has focused on organizations as continuously confronted by forces for change. These forces may cause organizations to rethink their deeply held cultural values and beliefs in order to survive in the changing landscape. Using the long-term care industry as an exemplar, we argue that effective change requires understanding what organizational culture means, … More Managing Organizational Culture Change: The Case of Long-Term Care

Goal Orientation – Your basic logical Checklist

More than any other situation Change is about cooperation and collaboration. No matter if your company is in serious trouble or just wants to find a new way to line itself up – it always needs people to initiate, moderate, steer, coordinate and live that Change. So what? The problem is that often people simply don´t know how to cooperate. Of course people cooperate on a daily … More Goal Orientation – Your basic logical Checklist

How to investigate technology with Gap Analysis

More than any other situation Change is about cooperation and collaboration. No matter if your company is in serious trouble or just wants to find a new way to line itself up – it always needs people to initiate, moderate, steer, coordinate and live that Change. So what? The problem is that often people simply don´t know how to cooperate. Of course people cooperate on a daily … More How to investigate technology with Gap Analysis

Why Professionals can be an Implementation Barrier to Change in Public Organisations

Professionals are often seen as an implementation barrier to change in public organisations. Although their commitment is judged to be crucial, they often behave rather reservedly and may even oppose change. The power models and micropolitical theories of change both conceptualise this resistance as a defence of their professional interests, their benefits and their power … More Why Professionals can be an Implementation Barrier to Change in Public Organisations

Generating Ideas with the Gallery Method

More than any other situation Change is about cooperation and collaboration. No matter if your company is in serious trouble or just wants to find a new way to line itself up – it always needs people to initiate, moderate, steer, coordinate and live that Change. So what? The problem is that often people simply don´t know how to cooperate. Of course people cooperate on a daily … More Generating Ideas with the Gallery Method

Bunches of Bananas and Lateral Thinking

More than any other situation Change is about cooperation and collaboration. No matter if your company is in serious trouble or just wants to find a new way to line itself up – it always needs people to initiate, moderate, steer, coordinate and live that Change. So what? The problem is that often people simply don´t know how to cooperate. Of course people cooperate on a daily … More Bunches of Bananas and Lateral Thinking

Bullet Proofing your Plans

More than any other situation Change is about cooperation and collaboration. No matter if your company is in serious trouble or just wants to find a new way to line itself up – it always needs people to initiate, moderate, steer, coordinate and live that Change. So what? The problem is that often people simply don´t know how to cooperate. Of course people cooperate on a daily … More Bullet Proofing your Plans

Beware of Group Attribution Errors in Change

Social Psychology is of great use for everybody that is about to plan a Change. Therefore I decided to start a new series that features some thoughts on Social Psychology and its concepts and theories. This time I want to talk about the  “Group Attribution Error” and that you better should know it befor doing any Change … More Beware of Group Attribution Errors in Change

Better know the Risky Shift Phenomenon before doing Change

Social Psychology is of great use for everybody that is about to plan a Change. Therefore I decided to start a new series that features some thoughts on Social Psychology and its concepts and theories. This time I want to talk about the “Risky Shift Phenomenon” and that you better should know it befor doing any Change … More Better know the Risky Shift Phenomenon before doing Change