Invited article: Adaptability

• Authors: Olivia Rud
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

For the last several decades, organizations have dealt with economic shifts using change management. Based on the new science, there are two major flaws with this approach. First, the word change implies an event with an ending. Second, it implies that change can be managed. In a world of economic volatility, this approach is no longer viable. The continuous climate of uncertainty and volatility demands another view, one that supports adaptability and resilience.

Keywords

EN

Organization; alignment; speed of change; economic volatility; market shift; Total Quality Management; Business Reprocess Engineering; living systems; chaos; evolution; fifth discipline; learning organization; system thinking

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Business Systems Research Journal
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 4-12

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2012-09-19

Contributors

author

Olivia Rud

• OLIVIAGroup

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10305-012-0017-x