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Quick Guide Change Management for all Cases

What Case Studies Teach Us

verfasst von: Thomas Lauer

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This Quick Guide to Change Management for all cases serves as a short guide. It offers those responsible and those affected a quick overview of how corporate change can succeed. To ensure practical transfer, it provides valuable tips based on real-life experiences and illustrated by a series of case studies drawn from the author's own research and consulting experience. In addition, there is an in-depth look at typical occasions of corporate change, such as business succession, acquisitions and mergers, digitalization and corporate growth or professionalization.

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Frontmatter
1. Change Management: A Brief Introduction
Why Change Is Difficult and How It Succeeds
Abstract
This chapter provides a basic, yet compact introduction to change management. In particular, answers are given to the following questions:
What is change management?
Why has the importance of change management increased?
Why does change often fail in practice?
What are the success factors for implementing change with as little resistance as possible?
Thomas Lauer
2. Success Factors of Change Management
Dos and Don’ts of Change
Abstract
This chapter deals with aspects related to the nine success factors of change, person, vision, communication, participation, integration, re-education, project organization, consultation and evolution. In particular, it deals with:
  • Typical leadership problems that occur in the context of change
  • Tips on how to avoid these mistakes and thus fully develop the success factors.
Thomas Lauer
3. Change in the Context of Mergers & Acquisitions
Case Studies of Business Mergers and What They Teach Us!
Abstract
The following chapter presents a series of current case studies on change management in the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), which were researched on the basis of guided interviews. The aim of the case studies is to make the challenges of change transparent by means of practical examples and to show practical solutions for these challenges in accordance with the success factors of change management.
In the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), this primarily concerns the following challenges:
  • Overcoming different corporate cultures
  • Power imbalances due to enormous size differences
  • Cultural differences in international M&A
Thomas Lauer
4. Change as a Result of Digitalization
Case Studies of Digitalization Projects and What They Teach Us!
Abstract
The following chapter presents a series of current case studies on change management, which were researched on the basis of guided interviews. The aim of the case studies is to make the challenges of change transparent by means of practical examples and to show practical solutions for these challenges in accordance with the success factors of change management.
The case studies on digitisation address the following practical challenges:
  • Introduction of a uniform IT solution at various locations
  • Replacement of paper-based processes by digital applications
  • The shift of customer-facing processes to online channels
Thomas Lauer
5. Change in the Context of Corporate Growth and Professionalization
Case Studies of Internal Business Change and What They Teach Us!
Abstract
The following chapter presents a series of current case studies on change management, which were researched on the basis of guided interviews. The aim of the case studies is to make the challenges of change transparent by means of practical examples and to show practical solutions for these challenges in accordance with the success factors of change management ((Lauer Change Management. Fundamentals and Success Factors, Springer Nature, 2021)).
The case studies on corporate growth and professionalization are oriented towards the corporate life cycle and accordingly address the overcoming of the pioneering phase of companies in the direction of greater professionalization as well as problems and solutions of organizations that have become too large and seem bureaucratic.
Thomas Lauer
6. Change in the Context of Business Succession
Business Handover Case Studies and What they Teach us!
Abstract
The following chapter presents two current case studies on change management, which were researched on the basis of guided interviews. The aim of the case studies is to make the challenges of change transparent by means of practical examples and to show practical solutions for these challenges in accordance with the success factors of change management in the context of corporate succession (Lauer, 2021).
The two case studies presented here address both the case of external and family-internal business succession.
Thomas Lauer
Metadaten
Titel
Quick Guide Change Management for all Cases
verfasst von
Thomas Lauer
Copyright-Jahr
2023
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Electronic ISBN
978-3-662-66625-8
Print ISBN
978-3-662-66624-1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66625-8

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