Abstract
To survive organizations have to innovate and to change. Fundamental questions are:
* Which strategies and tools could be applied succesfully in the everchanging
environment?
* Are the identified instruments effective iri our business?
* Do we need professional support?
In more than a dozen projects in different organizations (in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) stream Analysis proved to be a broad and general method for guiding planned change and innovation in organizations. It offers a conceptual framework for organizations that will help managers and change-practitioners to better understand and improve organizations and their innovative activi.ties. Drawing on that framework, the paper describes an approach for:
- diagnosing failings in organizational functioning;
- planning a comprehensive set of specific change activities needed to change the organization into a more effective and innovative system;
- implementing alterations in a system's character and functioning;
- and tracking the actions taken.
From 1988 till now, stream Analysis was effectively applied at Ingersoll Rand, AT & T, Philips, Volker Stevin, Mercedes-Benz, DAF, several hospitals, and other companies. Experiences with this method, developed at Stanford University and improved at Eindhoven University of Technology, showed the method to be powerful.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Implementation of innovations : papers for the ISPIM conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, September 5-8, 1993 |
| Place of Publication | Eindhoven |
| Publisher | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Pages | 210-220 |
| Publication status | Published - 1993 |
| Event | conference; 9th International conference of ISPIM; 1993-09-05; 1993-09-08 - Duration: 5 Sept 1993 → 8 Sept 1993 |
Conference
| Conference | conference; 9th International conference of ISPIM; 1993-09-05; 1993-09-08 |
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| Period | 5/09/93 → 8/09/93 |
| Other | 9th International conference of ISPIM |